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Mac$@*!
January 11, 2013 | 05:09 PM
I'm surprised Mr. Card hasn't come across this superstition more often! I too have been involved in theatre all my life (though it hasn't been as long as his life, no old-person joke intended), and this is probably the single most common theatre superstition I've run into. I've hardly heard the play refered to as anything but "Mac B," or "The Scottish Play" by theatre people.
But the version I'm familiar with is that it's only a 'curse' if it is said inside the theatre. Though many refuse to say it anywhere, just to be safe. They say that horrible things happen during your production, from financial problems to injury and death, when the name is spoken. I'm not sure what is supposed to have caused all this bad luck in the first place, but there are of course many urban legends that have "really happened to
a friend's cousin's neighboor" that involve disasters attributed to saying Macbeth.
I have never taken it seriously, but I do try to avoid saying it in front of superstitious people in the theatre just to be polite.
Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth.
Jim
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