I saw this production of Macbeth this afternoon with my friends Jen and Alban. We were rewarded for our wait in the freezing cold (for standing room tickets) with actual seats for the show. Thanks to Alban (I owe you big for this one), yours truly got a front row seat to the show. Directed and produced in large part by Teller (of Penn & Teller), it was anything but your typical Shakespeare production (if there is such a thing). I’m no aficionado of magic, but they pulled some incredible tricks in this show. People appeared and disappeared before our eyes. We saw fake blood which looked uncomfortably real. I knew we were in for quite a ride when the show began with a Folger Shakespeare Library staffer stabbed through the back while reading us an announcement from the stage. This doesn’t even include the excellent acting, the great fight choreography, the sound effects and percussion.