Then there's John Logan's 2012 film Private Romeo, a retooled Romeo and Juliet for the all-male cadets at a military school and Joe Calarco's 1998 take on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet called R and J, with all the roles played by four men. Her artistic forerunners include Phyllida Lloyd and her all-female productions of Julius Caesar, Henry IV, and The Tempest at St. With the wild abandon of youth they toss down their scripts and on the sheer wings of their adolescent imaginations, morph into the play's dramatis personae. These girls meet up to do the Scottish Play in a vacant lot outside the city on an autumn afternoon. The premise: Seven girls at a private school have a "Macbeth" club. Now in its New York premiere, under the auspices of the Red Bull Theatre, it is brash, irreverent, smart, and awash with new millennial flavor. But Erica Schmidt, who has adapted and directs Shakespeare's bloodiest play in a new all-female version entitled Mac Beth, gives it a go at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. It's difficult to say anything new or illuminating about Macbeth. (left to right) Isabelle Fuhrman as Macbeth Ismenia Mendes as Lady Macbeth
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