Articles about Macbeth
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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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Rory Kinnear plays the homicidal Thane like a Mitchell brother on the rampageFair is foul and foul is drab, gory and tricksy in Rufus Norris's first stab at Shakespeare direction at the Nati…
Rufus Norris's production which stars Kinnear and Duff as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, strays a little close to comic horror movie, but stays just on the side of chilling
Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff excel in Rufus Norris's nipped and tucked rendering
Anne-Marie Duff and Rory Kinnear star in Rufus Norris' staging of Macbeth
Rory Kinnear plays the homicidal Thane like a Mitchell brother on the rampageFair is foul and foul is drab, gory and tricksy in Rufus Norris's first stab at Shakespeare direction, Macbeth at…
We begin and end with a grisly decapitation. And that's rather the problem with this intermittently engaging Macbeth, which starts in the throes of some unspecified dystopian hellscape, and …
Having struggled to fill the, admittedly daunting, Olivier stage last year with Common and Saint George and the Dragon, two ambitious but
Olivier theatre, LondonRory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff star in a vigorous production that shows scant regard for the rhythms of the languageYou have to admire Rufus Norris's chutzpah. For o…
THE SCOTTISH PLAY, DARK AND DANK You don't expect robes and battlements these days. This is a shaven-head-and-machete Macbeth, its theme an indeterminate, timeless squalor: pos…
As she sees a host of new Macbeths, Sarah Crompton looks over the last few decades of watching Shakespeare's bloody tragedy
The actor, who played Bill Tanner in the James Bond films 'Quantum of Solace', 'Skyfall', and 'Spectre', as well won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his ro…
