'Macbeth' Takes on a New TongueWhile living in a predominently Tlingit village about 50 miles west of Juneau, Alaska, director Anita Maynard-Losh developed the idea of producing a version of "Macbeth" in the American Indian language unique to southeast Alaska and Canada. Fewer than 300 people are fluent in Tlingit, and the cast of 12 had slightly more than a month to learn their lines before their engagement at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
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