Role:             Macbeth
Where:          Ethnic Cultural Theatre
Playwright:    William Shakespeare

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"The treacherous royals' realistic and inevitable downward spiral is heightened with the casting of James Marsters and Kate Myre. Fine and intelligent actors both, they're also perhaps the sexiest, most erotic couple to tackle these leads. Together they vainly clutch for the position and power most "beautiful people" automatically deem their birthright. "  Tom Orr · Seattle Times Company  · October 14, 1996

"Though I've seen a dozen or so productions of 'Macbeth,' I've never seen anyone solve the Macbeth sensibility dilemma as neatly as James Marsters does in the current Seattle Shakespeare Festival production...In the title role, Marsters is obviously thinking all the time. He is passionate in a brooding way.  He doesn't just babble the infinitely famous verses...Marsters seems always to be searching for just the right word, slowly, painstakingly.  It becomes a sort of decadence, as if Macbeth cares more about words than people...Marsters does an excellent job with a purely psychological tragedy."  Joe Adcock  · Seattle Post-Intelligencer  · October 26, 1996