The destructive nature of unchecked power-lust and political ambition in Shakespeare's play speaks to us urgently still today"A drum! A drum! Macbeth doth come." So say Shakespeare's Weird S…
The production will be directed by Polly Findlay
With her marvelously fluty voice, imperious bearing, expressive physicality and animated facial features, Maja Wampuszyc as the haughty Corrine recalls Geraldine Page in all her grand glory.…
A pared back but wholly successful production that places the storytelling and poetry at the centre of the storm of hubristic violence.
Macbeth x 5 Reviewed by Paul Birchall Joel Asher Studios Through November 19 RECOMMENDED Hubble bubble, toil and trouble, here's a Macbeth that's performed crackerjack on the double! Yes,…
Have you booked yet for the lauded new post-apocalyptic version of Shakespeare's Macbeth ? The Devil You Know Theatre Company production is now running at the iconic Bussey Building in Peckh…
This is a timeless Macbeth, stripped down to the bone and taken back to its original text " slightly abridged to get it into two hours " bloody, brutal and uncompromising.
The premise of this post-apocalyptic retelling of the famous tragedy was clearly stated in the programme: civilisation had met its fall, and humanity is trying its best to survive through vi…
Devil You Know theatre company director Paul Tomlinson describes his setting as 'post apocalyptic' and certainly Peckham's Bussey building lends itself to such a concept.
Director Paul Tomlinson employs a post-apocalyptic, urban landscape of crumbling buildings and waste more akin to The Walking Dead than Dunsinane.
The post-apocalyptic future evoked in Devil You Know's Macbeth feels uncomfortably close to the present. Mike Lees' bare set, on which the
After its debut at the 1985 Brighton Fringe, Yukio Ninagawa's revered production of Macbeth is back. A unique and beautiful fusion of East and West, Shakespeare's timeless tale gets a Japane…
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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…