Ninja Witches - MacBeth

First off, I would like to start off my Macbeth review by saying that those witches looked very similar to ninjas. This was mainly due to them fighting with staffs and moving around the stage so much. This just goes to show how creative the actors and directors of the play are. They only used the staffs and a drum as props, resulting in the need to use all of their resources effectively. This involved using many of the minor characters, such as the extra witches, to make a human throne. And speaking of witches, the decision to increase the number from three to thirty was very interesting, as it made the scenes in which they were featured more active. The transition from witches to secondary characters, and vice-versa, was also very inventive. This had a big drawback though. It made it much tougher to identify who was who. I am no stranger to studying the works of Shakespeare, and I have read MacBeth many times. Despite this, I still found it difficult to figure out which character was speaking; only my familiarity with the play allowed me to figure it out. However, even with this difficulty, this method of transitioning was something I had never seen in a play before. Yet another point of interest was the witches "interacting" with the main character when they normally would not. This mainly involved swarming around the character and making hissing noises. This leads one to question just how much the witches were involved in making their own prophecy self-fulfilling. All of these new twists made the play very enjoyable and something worth seeing.