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“The rehearsal period is usually super short, and that’s what I’m used to,” says Negga, who will make her Broadway debut as Lady Macbeth, when I speak to her from her home in Los Angeles. Omicron has prevented us from meeting in person, but thanks to the Battle for the Division shirt in other words I will buy this vagaries of scheduling remote interviews, I’m able to catch her slightly off guard, via Zoom rather than the phone, in all her un-made-up, casual gorgeousness. “It was brilliant to be able to understand the play with other people in the room, rather than on your own,” she says, her obvious enthusiasm for the text she affectionately refers to as “Mackers” crackling through the screen. “There was a really warm and kind atmosphere, and Sam was at pains to assert that daily—the idea that, This is a place you can be safe.”
This was the Battle for the Division shirt in other words I will buy this first Macbeth for Negga, who played Hamlet in a 2019 production at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn—a performance that convinced Gold he had to cast her. (“I just had a passing recognition that Lady Macbeth was a kind of demon,” she says, laughing.) The workshop took place while Negga was in the midst of doing press for Passing, the Rebecca Hall–directed adaptation of Nella Larsen’s Harlem Renaissance novel, but it felt like an exercise of a different sort: “I realized how hungry I was to be in a room talking about art, processing the past two years, figuring out what this play was going to be.” What exactly this play was going to be, however, was somewhat up for debate—despite its 400-year provenance and despite Gold’s already established reputation as a director who strips away any artifice and lets the actors and the language lead without complicated sets or stagecraft. (“There are directors who will say, ‘This is set in the ’50s, or during the Vietnam War,’ ” says the costume designer Larlarb. “He will say, ‘It’s set the day that you came into the theater.’ ”) Gold has sunk his teeth into several of Shakespeare’s tragedies already: the NYTW Othello (which starred David Oyelowo alongside Craig), as well as a 2017 Hamlet at New York’s Public Theater (with Oscar Isaac), and a gender-bending King Lear at Broadway’s Cort Theater (with Glenda Jackson, in her post-politics return to the stage in her ninth decade of life). This time, however, Gold would be mounting the work not just in a pandemic-wracked world, but in a world rocked by the killing of George Floyd, the protests of the summer of 2020, and a reckoning in the theater community with entrenched biases. “Absolutely I have been thinking about race,” says Gold when I ask him about his approach this time. “This is a play about power—within a marriage, within the state, within your soul, within your ability to sleep. To do a play about power in 2022 America and avoid race would be to leave so much on the table.”
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