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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Shakespeare reduced, simmered, teased and troubled into a peppery, satisfyingly complex dream-theater stew that makes the most out some truly captivating ingredients: a fantastically fanciful fabric-strewn set (including aerial acrobatics tissu that went sadly underutilized); inventive, evocative costuming; Catherine Slusar's fierce, authoritative lead performance, and a shadowy chorus of "spirits" whose slinky hive-minded movements and murmurs occasionally felt silly and stilted, but more often effectively creepy and surreal. In less assured hands, Lady M might have been no more than nebulously nifty, but all the susurrating sound and feminist fury here lends itself to plenty of signification — though brushing up your Macbeth wouldn't hurt in untangling its web.

Through Sept. 9, 7 p.m., $25, Arts Bank at the University of the Arts, 601 S. Broad St. MORE INFO HERE.

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