A SOLIPSISTIC INTERPRETATION OF MACBETH.

A SOLIPSISTIC INTERPRETATION OF MACBETH. A related interpretative approach is to make the play a dream—the creation of a character who is outside the play, but who is not the playwright. In the recent production of MacBeth at Lincoln Center, Alan Cumming plays all the major roles. The play is set in a psychiatric hospital. Cumming enters in blood-stained clothes, which are stripped from him and placed in evidence bags. The patient then reenacts the play. This review by Charles Isherwood in the New York Times gives a good description of how the performance works. The review also has an interesting conclusion about the effect of the interpretation. Isherwood begins the review: “The title character’s divided nature, torn between ambition and honor, blood lust and guilt, has been shattered into splinters in the new production of “Macbeth” at the Rose Theater.”