Theatre review: Macbeth - Kenneth Branagh's spot of bother at the Manchester International Festival
Turn, hellhound, turn! So cries Macduff in the climactic battle scene of Macbeth, mustering all his strength to slay Shakespeare's eponymous tyrant and deliver Scotland from the forces of evil. Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth " a rugged, sweating warrior in medieval tartan (albeit with an English accent) " is finally going to bite the dust, or rather the squelching bog beneath his feet.