A revival of the late Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa's 'Macbeth', which sets the action in a 16th century samurai world, is performed in Japanese with English surtitles
'Like watching a masterpiece being painted and repainted in front of your eyes for hours': Sally Hales reviews Yukio Ninagawa's Macbeth. The post Review: Macbeth at the Barbican appeared fi…
It is now a little over a year since director Yukio Ninagawa died and this revival of his Macbeth, arguably his greatest hit, certainly brought an extra emotional tug to the Barbican.
The late Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa's production fuses eastern and western traditions
Barbican, LondonA revival of the Japanese director's 1985 production, filled with cherry blossom, poetically explores the obsession for power " and its emptinessThis production by Yukio Nina…
The death of the great Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa in 2016 robbed the international theatre scene of one its most original and
Ninagawa Company's Macbeth introduced UK audiences to the theatre of Yukio Ninagawa 30 years ago and this epoch-making production is now reprised at the Barbican to celebrate the work of the…
His bold take on Shakespeare's tragedy features kabuki witches, Buddhist chants and a cello-playing Lady Macbeth. As it returns, Yukio Ninagawa's collaborators remember how he enthralled and…
The tragedy is interpreted by director Robert O'Hara as a study in machismo, male relationships and what it means to be a man.
"Macbeth Muet" is a frolic through tragedy with puppetry, while "Makbet" is a darkly gregarious production (shots included).
Since its premiere in Walcot Street in October 1977, 'Elsie and Norm's Macbeth' has been, and still is, continually performed all over the world and a number of famous names have taken the t…
In this week’s production news, Christopher Eccleston is to make his debut at the Royal Shakespeare Company next summer playing the title role
Christopher Eccleston is to make his debut at the Royal Shakespeare Company next summer playing the title role in Macbeth opposite Niamh
Erica Whyman will also direct a new musical about Joan Littlewood by Sam Kenyon
A post-apocalyptic version of Macbeth is being staged in the Bussey Building in Peckham, London. Devil You Know Theatre Company will present
Sydney Theatre CompanyWeaving is faultless in a production that turns Shakespeare's play around and confirms Kip Williams as a major directing talentThe risks of this production are there fr…
Macbeth is Australia's most performed Shakespearean play " so pity theatre critics like Jane Howard who don't enjoy it As a theatre critic it's important to not decide on a work before you s…
The many faces of Lady Macbeth: Rosemary Waugh reviews an artful exploration of Shakespeare's shadowy matriarch. The post Edinburgh Fringe Review: Lady Macbeth: Unsex Me Here at Dance Base …
A curiously uneven production of Verdi's opera
The Edinburgh International Festival opened its opera offering in 1947 with Verdi’s magnificent Macbeth, so it is only fitting that Emma Dante’s