Wei Hai-min's part as Lady Macbeth doesn't fit any single role in traditional Chinese drama--her wily wickedness is too much for the chaste ch'ing-i role, and requires a combination of the lively hua-tan and the sharp-tongued po-la-tan roles to do justice to it.
吳興國所飾的馬克白，從一介將軍，到一國之君，到後來的失神瘋顛，要融合武生、老生、大花臉的表演才顯得出來；魏海敏的夫人一角，更是傳統戲付之闕如的角色﹘ ﹘青衣之端莊不足以表達夫人的陰狠，還要揉合花旦、潑辣旦的作表，才「足了味道」。