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Shakespeare Gets a Facelift: Macbeth
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Original Version transformed to Updated Version
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Characters
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3 Witches
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Psychic hotline
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Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
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Corporate lawyer, Jane Doe, and her husband, Jack
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King Duncan
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Founder of the law firm, Oswald Duncan
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Malcolm and Donalbain, Duncan's sons
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Macduff
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Banquo
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Other senior partners
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Setting
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Scotland
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New York City
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Plot
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Witches plant ambitious thoughts in Macbeth's mind
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Frivolous call to psychic hotline during a party
plants seeds of ambition
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Lady Macbeth driven by even greater ambition,
manipulates Macbeth into killing King Duncan
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Jack manipulates Jane into ruthless business
practices; Duncan dies of a stroke.
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Macbeth blames murder on King's sons and usurps throne
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Evidence against other partners is manufactured so
they are indicted by SEC and arrested
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Guilt and fate bring down Macbeth's kingdom
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Money and prestige are no protection against
haunting by Duncan's ghost. Jane is sold out by a junior
partner. Bankruptcy, divorce, depression, institutionalization.
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