by William Shakespeare
Class Act
Directed by Stephen
Lee
With Nick Maclaine,
Rhoda Lopez, Angelique Malcolm, Shirley Van Sanden, Kyle Sargon, Daniel Buckle,
Stephen Lee and Patrick Whitelaw
Subiaco Arts Centre Studio
Until September 14;
then in schools
When you watch
Shakespeare performed for students, the immortal power of his language most
impresses you: “one fell swoop”, “the milk of human kindness” and the “poison’d
chalice”, everything that follows that “damned spot” and “Tomorrow, and
tomorrow, and tomorrow” all come from Macbeth.
Class Act has
produced an unpatronising, economical Macbeth for high school students. If its
audience (which, by the way, was immaculately attentive throughout the
performance I saw) can take these words and ideas away with it, and know from
whence they came, that’s a treasure beyond reckoning.
