Play: MACBETH MIRROR
Based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth
SYNOPSIS
Macbeth is a play about Evil. Evil emanates from the dark power whose agents are the three weird sisters. The present interpretation does not visualize Macbeth externally as a historical record; but rather as a re-creation of the event as mirrored in the minds of the weird sisters. It is seen as a phenomenon transcending time and space: the incantations and rituals of the dark aspect of the Tantric cult used throughout the presentation represent this pervasive evil embodied in Shakespeare’s play. Evil is here invoked by, and its outcome experienced by, the three weird sisters. To concentrate on this emergence of Evil, the original text has been edited so as to focus on the two central victims of the historical event who succumb to this Evil through their lust for power.
The text followed is the only Bengali translation which is faithful both to the rich poetry and the metric structure of Shakespeare’s original, and runs in harmony with the Sanskrit incantations used in the production.
