Posted on: Friday, March 17, 2006
Feudal feuding in double 'Macbeth'
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Toshiro Mifune plays a samurai Macbeth in 1957's "Throne of Blood."
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Two versions of Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth" will be screened at the Leeward Community College Theatre today:
"Throne of Blood," 1957, directed by the legendary Akira Kurosawa and starring the also-legendary Toshiro Mifune, places the drama in feudal Japan. 10 a.m. today.
"Macbeth," from 1948, stars Orson Welles as the Scottish nobleman driven mad by ambition, murder and guilt. Welles also directed. 7 p.m. today.
Screenings are free. 455-0385.
