Saturday Macbeth Superstition
Here is yet another superstition related
to performers and theaters.
Never say the name of Shakespeare’s play
Macbeth in a theater. If you must
reference this play for some reason, simply say “the Scottish play”. But where
did this superstition come from?
Joseph Whelan, theater history professor
at Syracuse University states: “this
comes from the original days of the play, when theatergoers believed in
witches. It was believed that the incantations the witches say in the play
could actually produce bad spirits or work as a curse.”
So, to put it bluntly, saying Macbeth in a theater is the same thing
as cursing the show.
Scary.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Superstition #111:
“Never say
the name Macbeth in a theater.”
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"Fair is foul, and foul is fair".
- Shakespeare (Macbeth Act I, Scene I)
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