Actor Alan Cumming takes on 'Macbeth' - all of it, including the women's roles

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Actor Alan Cumming takes on 'Macbeth' - all of it, including the women's roles

BY MARK KENNEDY, AP DRAMA WRITER

NEW YORK -- To play Macbeth is no mere task. Nor is portraying Lady Macbeth or Macduff or even Duncan. Undaunted, Alan Cumming is trying them all - at the same time.

The Tony-winning Scotsman is playing all the roles in Shakespeare's tragedy, an Olympic feat of both endurance and gender-bending. All three witches? Cumming. He's also Banquo and Lady Macduff, for good measure.

"It's truly the most difficult thing I've ever done," says Cumming, who has rather outrageously ended up doing his one-man "Macbeth" in New York while also filming the fourth season of CBS' "The Good Wife."

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