By Robert Hitchcox This is by far the very worst Macbeth ever performed. It didn't help that The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society produced this fiasco. This group of women even brought in theatre expert George Peach (Jim Clevenger) to give his expert opinion. Not only that; they required him to perform in drag. Good grief! Their casting was abysmal. Being a woman's club they were short of men so they cast goateed Henry (Steve Stetak). Alas, they cast him in a prominent female role. Thank you Patio Playhouse and director Rob Wolter for bringing The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of "Macbeth," -by playwrights David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin, Jr., to Escondido. It's silly, it's funny, it's inane, and it defies being put into one comedic genre....
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