Hopefully one of the theater-type people will have an answer for this.
What is the deal with the "MacBeth" superstion? I mean I've read all the websites I can find, and blab blah blah it's supposed to bring badluck or whatver, and as such you're not supposed to utter the word "MacBeth" around actors or in a theater or what have you.
So what pray tell do you do when you are actually performing a rendition of the play? Do you go reciting lines and change it round so that MacBeth and Lady MacBeth are just known as Mr. and Mrs. M. and /or do you use the third person whenever possible so you've not got to ever say the names? What?!
This is a question that's plagued me for years since I first heard this superstition in an episode of Blackadder III, and I was reminded of it recently because there was an article in the JCS Playbill about the current Patrick Stuart rendition. So hopefully somone will help satisfy my curiosity...
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