2016 Capital Fringe Review: 'Macbeth in the Basement'
William Shakespeare serves as playwright Annie Bryan's inspiration for Dodgeball Theatre's Macbeth in the Basement. Featuring only five actors and a limited set, Bryan tries weaving a modern…
William Shakespeare serves as playwright Annie Bryan's inspiration for Dodgeball Theatre's Macbeth in the Basement. Featuring only five actors and a limited set, Bryan tries weaving a modern…
Torrential rain almost ruined the Marcus Garvey Park stage.
Torrential rain almost ruined their Marcus Garvey Park stage.
Macbeth with 4 witches
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Iqbal Khan's Gothic production runs until October 1
Surely flashy choreographer Alistair David deserves some credit for the immediate confrontational look. And that's only for
Both 15-year-olds, who are at the same school in a downscale neighborhood, feel slightly alienated among their classmates
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Iqbal Khan directs this latest production of Shakespeare's bloody and violent tragedy, running in repertory at the Globe until 1 October 2016. But what have critics made of it?
Many of us seated (and indeed standing) could not have predicted the significance of watching Macbeth in the Globe on the eve of 23 June 2016. Shakespeare's play exploring political turbulen…
Toil and trouble don't simply bubble in the Old Globe's bracing new staging of "Macbeth": They detonate like a succession of grenades. Even the words of the play's famous witches come out da…
The Old Globepresentsthe first offering in the 2016 Summer Shakespeare Festival William Shakespeare's thrilling classic Macbeth, directed by Brian Kulick, Artistic Director of Classic Stage …
It begins promisingly, a dark Gothic fairy tale " both Grimm and grim. The writhing witches (four, oddly) are summoned from a pile of dead bodies, Stefan Fichert's eerie puppetry all chopped…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonRay Fearon and Tara Fitzgerald give feverish performances but this production has an aura of perverse oddity " why do the Macbeths have a child?Iqbal Khan's produc…
Like most of Shakespeare's tragedies, Macbeth works best when viewed on the strength of the relationships between its characters. Sure the blood and guts murders are ways to get bum on seats…
For David Lister, the performance of the night comes from 'underrated' actress Tara Fitzgerald
Iqbal Khan's production runs until 1 October
Arrows and Traps’s Macbeth is a work of effortless energy and unending style. It is accessible, revitalised and thought-provoking. It is the story of Macbeth and the iconic witches wit…
Macbeth is in repertory until November 5, while As You Like It is until October 22, both at the Festival Theatre
The tragedy of "Macbeth" begins with the witches " those three "weird sisters" whose utterances foretell (or do they compel?) the title character's murderous rise to power. And any productio…
TWIST Theatre Company The Way I See Theatre, Hackney Empire's new graduate company, brings the premiere of a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's MACBETH, set in the in the cutthroat world of…
Brian Kulick, former artistic director of New York's Classic Stage Company, helms the production.
Antoni Cimolino pulls off some chilling surprises in this production of the Shakespeare classic.