ADAPTATION: Teller's (of Penn & Teller) Macbeth

This year at NCTE they hyped the new Folger produced, Teller directed version of Macbeth.

When interviewed in Psychology Today they asked Teller:

What's your interest in Macbeth?

At 12, my father directed me to Act 4, Scene 1, the cauldron incantation, and I fell in love. There festered in my evil, little heart the notion that someday I should do a production of Macbeth that treated the gore andsupernatural stuff with the full regard that Shakespeare would have given it. My codirector, Aaron Posner, and I came up with the phrase, "supernatural horror thriller." If it's happening in Macbeth's head, we want you right along with him. So if he sees the Weird Sisters vanish, you should see them vanish.

Does your atheism enhance your appreciation of the supernatural?

Absolutely. If you think there really is a possibility that, say, witchcraft is valid, you can't appreciate it as art—as invention and poetry.

A DVD of the production is available at Amazon.

Macbeth: The DVD Edition (Folger Shakespeare Library)