Role:            Lennox/Multiple roles
Where:         Intiman Theatre
Playwright:   William Shakespeare

This was my second play at the Intiman.  I played multiple roles, the biggest of which was Lennox. He's one of  the Thanes and rivals of Macbeth; a sometimes supporter and then turns against him. (clip) I learned there what not to do with Macbeth.  Nothing against the people who did it, but I think that they fell prey to some of the mistakes that are often made in that play, which are to not accent the love between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth in the beginning of the play.  It's the loss of that love that makes the play a tragedy and we don't have tragedies unless people feel bad when Lady Macbeth dies. And I learned that you can't cower from the ghost - you have to charge the ghost if you're good, or the audience will laugh at you.  I saw a very wonderful wonderful actor get laughed at - I learned about that. And I learned that you can't have big sets for Macbeth because the fifth act splinters so much between places; it's a wonderful thing because it picks up the play quickly (snaps fingers) but if you have big sets you have to wait for them to change and so you can't get lulled into a big set design with Macbeth.  Never do that, not for stage. You've got to keep it very lean so it can move in the fifth act. But in a movie environment it would be perfect; structurally it's designed for film.  JM.com 2007

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"Jonathan Adams, Robyn Hunt, James Marsters, Amy Perry and Brian Thompson are a solid team. As with any Seattle Shakespeare production, some people can speak the verse better than others."  Joe Adcock · Seattle Post-Intelligencer ·  May 22, 1992