Scrumtrulescent

That is the only word I can think of to describe The Madsters' performance in Macbeth. All in all it was an impressive production, considering they started working on it just a little over a month ago. The performances are not at the school, which lacks an venue for such productions, but at the Masonic Temple over by Hennepin and Franklin. They are set up quite well for things like this, lots of back drops that can be raised and lowered for different scenes and an audio system in which they actually mic all the performers. Unfortunately the speakers are not arranged well, so it was hard to hear from where we were sitting. This whole set up must be part of the Mason's good deed doing. There were at least 5 of them there helping out with the sound and such, and I don't think that school had to rent the space.

The version of Macbeth that was produced was the shortened version of the abridgement of the original play. It lasted a little over an hour. Part of the reason for the shortening of the abridgement was that Macbeth didn't learn all his lines. Remember, these are 6-8 graders and they started this a little over a month ago. The Madster remembered all of her lines though, and delivered them neither with a vacant monotone nor the hyper flourish of Master Thespian. Her gestures were very Maddie, but not exaggerated. Scrumtrulescent performance.

I did learn something new from this play. Shakespeare is the origin of the phrase "Who's your daddy?" The First Murderer spoke this epic line as he was dispatching Banquo. I'll have to go back and read Shakespeare again. I didn't realize he was so fly.