On the staging of <i>Macbeth</i>

João Paulo Seara Cardoso (1956–2010) was the Artistic Director and founder of Teatro de Marionetas do Porto (Porto, Portugal), who staged all the shows presented by the company, from 1988 to 2010. He directed only one Shakespeare play, Macbeth , in 2001, in which he himself manipulated the puppet of Macbeth. He presented this essay in Portuguese at the conference ‘Shakespeare entre nós’ [Shakespeare among us] at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon from 28 to 29 November 2005. It was first published in Portuguese in Shakespeare entre nós / Colóquio Shakespeare, ed. Maria Helena Serôdio et al. (Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa / Centro de Estudos de Teatro, 2009).