Adapted from
Macbeth. Directed by Michael Roes. Starring Andreá Smith, Ahmed Hizam al-Dulae, Yahya Hamood Mohsin Al-Dhafeer, Abdullah Nasser Muhammed Al-Hamdan. English and Arabic with partial English subtitles. Colour with some segments in black and white. 96 minutes.
This film assumes the form of a documentary about an African-American director (played by Andreá Smith), who is traveling to Yemen to make a film adaptation of Macbeth with a cast of local amateur actors. In real life Andreá Smith was a professional dancer and the actual director behind the film is the German anthropologist, author, and film director Michael Roes. This layering of dramatic and cinematic genres within the film raises questions not only about how the film’s genre should be classified but also about how
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Citation: Vyroubalova, Ema. "Someone is Sleeping in My Pain (2001): An East-West Macbeth". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 April 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19406, accessed 27 November 2024.]
