Mac Bird!
A Plays, Humor, Drama book. Barbara Garsons MacBird! is a rousing but ultimately forgettable satire of...
MacBird! was a notorious 1966 counterculture drama by Barbara Garson satirically depicting President Lyndon Johnson as Macbeth & his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as Lady Macbeth. The production became a big hit downstairs at the Village Gate on NY's Bleecker St in the '67 season. Coming three years after Kennedy's assassination & before the end of Johnson's presidency, it caused controversy. Starting out as a short satire by a recent graduate of the Berkeley anti-Vietnam war movement, it was developed, with a little help from Shakespeare, into a rousing attack upon the current administration. The play, performed in full costume, flavored with rich Texas & Boston accents, & an attempt at Shakespearean iambic pentameter, begins with the '60 presidential convention, where, with the help of his wife, MacBird hopes to be elected King, but loses to John Ken O'Dunc. By a plot twist, it's revealed that MacBird will become Viceroy, much to the dismay of the Ken O'Dunc clan. Then MacBird comes upon three witches who talk to him in riddles, & who, in his imagination, reveal to him that he will in good time become King. MacBird decides to hasten this prospect & invites the Ken O'Dunc family to...
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A classic work of 1960s political theater, originally intended to be no more than a one-off demonstration sketch. Advised to flesh out the sketch into a full-length parody of MacBeth, activist-playwright Barbara Garson ended up with Off Broadway's biggest hit of the year. Potentially useful as a model for playwrights at this turbulent... I'd heard a lot about this play since its first production in New York but didn't get around to reading the thing until finding it for sale in a used edition. Indeed, much of what I read is stuff discovered fortuitously, years after the intent was formed. Excepting cases of necessity, such as an assigned reading for a class, I rarely... Barbara Garsons MacBird! is a rousing but ultimately forgettable satire of Lyndon Johnsons presidency. Garson borrows and appropriates scenes and lines from several of Shakespeares most celebrated plays (chiefly Macbeth), but the narrative cannot sustain the weight of the plays conceptual bulk. MacBird! feels situated in a particular...
