I am not sure Alan Cumming is real.
I assume they hang out all the time and talk about doing guest appearances at SNM.
I saw Alan Cumming’s one-man version of Macbeth over the summer at Lincoln Center and was totally blown away. Evidently the show will be back in NYC in April, and if you haven’t caught it yet I strongly recommend that you do so. Here’s an awesome trailer from the last production!
You still have a few more chances to see Alan Cumming’s (nearly) one-man production of Macbeth as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. I saw it last night, and have been thinking about it non-stop since then.
Alan Cumming is doing a one-man production of Macbeth, set in a mental hospital. It’s coming to Lincoln Center in July and I’m pretty goddamn excited. I strongly encourage you to watch the trailer and then get excited with me.
“We both wanted to do it properly in the way we really wanted to do it. It’s the perfect show for NTS – it’s traditional and radical and experimental. It’s nuts, what we’re doing. Nuts!”
In the meantime, Cumming has immersed himself in the voices of Macbeth by not only doing an audiobook of the play but also recording Macbeth: A Novel by David Hewson and A J Hartley. Then, last autumn, the immersive theatremakers Punchdrunk asked him to guest for two performances in Sleep No More, their reworking of Macbeth.
“So all roads were leading to Macbeth,” he says. But a Macbeth in which actor and directors, to a greater extent than usual, make it all up as they go along. This, for Cumming, is the visceral thrill.
I JUST REALLY LIKE SHAKESPEARE OKAY