Articles about Macbeth
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Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in the production, which opened in Stratford
Polly Findlay directs Christopher Eccleston in his RSC debut in the title role of Macbeth, with Niamh Cusack returning to the company to play Lady Macbeth and Edward Bennett as Macduff, in a…
The death cries of Macduff's slaughtered children are accidentally relayed to Lady Macbeth's mobile phone in this modern-dress production of 'Macbeth' starring Christophe…
Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in Polly Findlay's bold production
Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in Polly Findlay's production
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonChristopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in an RSC production that moves at a lick but sometimes lacks subtletyProductions of Macbeth come th…
A deep love of horror movies permeates Polly Findlay's staging of Macbeth. This is an approach that makes sense " it is,
IT'S THAT MAN AGAIN… It is awkward that two major new productions of the Scottish Play, by two determinedly auteurish directors, open in the same month. Rufus Norris' bleak "pos…
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The Greek former finance minister talks about the lessons politicians could learn from Shakespeare, ahead of a lecture in LondonIs Theresa May Macbeth? Might King Lear agree with Jeremy Corb…
The politics may be clumsy but the acting is beautiful at the National Theatre. Make no mistake, Rory Kinnear is a magnificent Macbeth.
The Barbican's new season has been announced
If you're a Shakespeare fan then there's no reason why you shouldn't go and judge Rufus Norris' Macbeth for yourself, but if not then I wouldn't rush along, as I don't think this is the prod…
Cusack stars as the murderous wife in the RSC production of Shakespeare's classic
Almeida; Olivier, LondonPatsy Ferran shows her dramatic range in a Tennessee Williams revival, but Rory Kinnear's Macbeth is one-dimensionalSummer and Smoke must make Rebecca Frecknall's nam…
As he finally achieves his ambition of playing the Scot at the 'posh' RSC, Eccleston talks about how Doctor Who almost destroyed his career, his debt to his parents and why he 'put self-hatr…
So, I'm sorry to say that the starry Olivier-platformed NT production of Macbeth is a dull disappointment. For me, I couldn't find a single element that worked.
This Macbeth lives in a world of bin bag chic. Raves, duct-taped armour, heads thrown into plastic bags; this is an apocalyptic underworld where dad dancing mingles with murder, in a visuall…
A whole lot of post-apocalyptic hurly-burly and sadly not much more besides " the National Theatre's Macbeth really is something of a red-trousered disappointment.
The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness. Shakespeare's most intense and terri…
Rufus Norris directs the new London production.
Here's a real witches brew: a "Macbeth" so mangled it makes Hamlet look sane. For his first foray into Shakespeare's Folio in 25 years, director Rufus Norris, also the artistic director of t…
Find out what the reviews said of Rufus Norris' return to Shakespeare
Rufus Norris’ National regime was marred by several high-profile flops in the Olivier last year. Salome, Common and Saint George and the
Shopping bags and parcel tape: Rosemary Waugh reviews Rufus Norris's after-the-war Shakespeare.
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