Alan Cumming to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in new one-man production
by Stephen Gray
29 November 2011, 9:08am
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/11/29/alan-cumming-to-play-macbeth-and-lady-macbeth-in-new-one-man-production/The National Theatre of Scotland has announced it will be staging a one-man version of Macbeth featuring Alan Cumming as both the title character and his ambitious wife.
Cumming, who received an OBE in 2009 for services to the arts and for his gay rights campaign work, said: "I have been obsessed with the play all my life. It was the first Shakespeare I was in, at the Tron in Glasgow.
"Speaking to John Tiffany in New York, earlier this year, I had this idea I wanted to swap the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, because there are so many things about gender, I thought it would be a really exciting idea to flip that.
