←Recommendations of macbitches

YES. A freshman has been cast as Lady Macbeth, and the jealous upperclassmen try to hide their envy as they get to know her. In addition to having pitch-perfect theater major dialogue, this play also touches on how few good roles there are for females in the plays that tend to get done in college. Maybe these girls would be less desperate, jealous, and macbitchy if there were more exciting female roles to go around. That's not an issue in this play, however, where every role would be a treat. What a great show for college-age actors!

I knew from the perfect character descriptions that I was going to love this script, and McIntosh didn’t disappoint! This script has the qualities of a horror flick—on the surface is all the fucked-up politics of your typical drama department, but underneath simmers something darker and more malevolent. The tension builds in such an organic, unnerving way until you get to the ending, which feels simultaneously completely inevitable and totally shocking. With five great roles for female actors, this is a play I’d absolutely love to see up on its feet!

McIntosh perfectly replicates the politics of collegiate theatre with elevated twists and a drunken night that combine to make a fast-paced piece of theatre. A great mix of comedy and drama to strike a chord with theatre-lovers.

What a delightful, dizzy, and deeply intimate play about the tragic toxicity of theatre - in particular the micro/macrocosm of collegiate theatre - and the messy ass tangled web it weaves in the psyches of of its lifelong students. With naturalistic and bloodily brilliant dialogue, a cunningly dynamic cast of characters, and a tone that drips with a fierce love, loathing, and lingering sense of dread "macbitches" has a wonderful wickedness headed your way so just read it!

In this piece, McIntosh captures the inelegant natural rhythms of human speech so well and gives us a sizable ensemble of distinct and dynamic roles for young women. The play's descent from lighthearted, sharp satire to something more sinister is compelling and earned. The exploration of misogyny, double standards, and ways inequitable and corrupt systems pit women against one another within academic theater, the theater industry as a whole, and the world at large is complex and nuanced. The thematic/figurative connections with MACBETH itself come to a brilliant head in the final moments!