MACBETH: A Staged Reading
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Kathryn Walsh
In the 2016 One Book, One Northwestern book selection “Signal and the Noise,” author Nate Silver unpacks our obsession with predicting the future, and gives us a number of examples of how we often fail, despite our best knowledge and intentions. Similarly in Macbeth, Shakespeare gives us another view of that obsession. With their perspective warped by their desires, the Macbeths imagine they can see ahead clearly. What we have in Macbeth is a great tragedy of confirmation bias and the horrible consequences of believing too strongly in the power of prediction.
Join us for a special staged reading of this classic Shakespearian drama performed by Northwestern students.
Presented in collaboration with The Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts