Hunter Theater's Mac Beth - Take the Trouble to Go

Theater Hunter Project MAC  BETH adapted & directed by Erica Schmidt shakes up Shakespeare's play Macbeth and spears out a fierce, contemporary & captivating production.  While maintaining the lyricism of Shakespeare's immortal writing, the all women Hunter student cast blasts Macbeth into the 21st C.  This is not your girlie girl (I regret the term) show.  It is one for the record books.  Can you improve on Shakespeare?  No - but Theater Hunter enhances the play's relevancy, if not sparks new life-interest for todays clever audiences.  This Scottish tragedy is darkly portrayed with tantalizing energy mixed with a fair measure of ferocious emotional toll. And, fair to say, it's also a fun romp.  Dare Hunter women defy gender roles?  Yes, they do an about face on Shakespeare's all male casts; back in the day.  The clever Hogwarts school attire is especially bewitching when long, hooded capes sheath the 3 witches.  This 90 minute One Act production is relentless, swift and sleek.  Umbrellas, bathtubs and sofas are shrewdly utilized in the skillful & hydrous staging by Andrea Miller.  Lady Macbeth (Ismenia Mendes) and her malleable husband (Camila Cano-Flavia) emit angst with scorching indelibility.  "Give sorrow words, the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break." The entire cast inhabit their roles with exuberance & galvanizing abhorrence.  Come what come may, if thou has't not seen MAC  BETH at Hunter, I beseech ye to attend tomorrow, or tomorrow