Articles about Macbeth
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By JK Clarke It can be argued that Macbeth is Shakespeare's best and most beloved play. It's an assertion that would certainly spark vigorous…
A landmark year, 2018 sees The Australian Shakespeare Company celebrating the remarkable 30th Anniversary of their Shakespeare Under The Stars. Growing from a kernel of an idea in 1988, Shak…
This is a Macbeth that emphasises the psychological horror of the story. It is a brutal and murderous play, but priority is given to the effects of the violence rather than the violence itse…
Something wicked has arrived in the West End. It comes in the form of the National Youth Theatre REP Company's production of Macbeth, which has been abridged beautifully by Moira Buffini. Sh…
Directed by Natasha Nixon, Macbeth is the latest production by the National Youth Theatre REP Company, and the final in its 2018 season (the two previous productions being Consensual and Vic…
Garrick, LondonThe National Youth Theatre's urgent, gender-fluid production bubbles with intimacy, brutality and fearSpace is in such short supply in the West End that the National Youth The…
The National Youth Theatre's Macbeth " the third and final instalment of the company's 2018 West End season " is the third
Robert Hastie directs Michelle Terry and Paul Ready in this new production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews…
'Talented young voices': Hailey Bachrach writes on the impressive performances at the heart of the National Youth Theatre's Macbeth.
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Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Harold Pinter; Garrick; the GateThe domestic drama is especially close to home in the Globe's Scottish play. Plus, more exceptional Pinter and a joyous West End repr…
"When shall we three meet again?" ask the three witches at the beginning of Macbeth. Probably quite soon is the answer this
Shakespeare's Globe kicks off their Winter season in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with the famously bloodthirsty tale of a Scottish king's quest for power. Directed by Robert Hastie, the prod…
You wait so long for a Macbeth then like the buses, four major productions come along at once. The Barbican is staging the Royal Shakespeare Company's offering while the roundly panned Natio…
Flickering flames: Amy Borsuk writes on a production of Shakespeare's tragedy that makes artful use of candlelight.
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Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonPaul Ready and Michelle Terry work brilliantly to create a central relationship that feels intimate and believableCasting roles based on real-life relationship…
Robert Hastie's production fully, wonderfully gets the measure of the play
You can't move for Macbeths at the moment. There's the Royal Shakespeare Company's horror-infused staging at the Barbican. There's the National Youth
THE EMPTY DARKNESS OF THE HEART   Third time lucky: after two glumly disappointing 2018 productions steeped in directorial gimmicks  – RSC and NT – the ca…
A daring counterintuitive reading proves richly rewardingMacbeth has rarely seemed quite as metrosexual as in this gorgeous shadow-painted production that marks artistic director at the Glob…
This Macbeth should be an absolute blinder with such a strong and perfectly brooding lead… but unfortunately, the production falls a little flat in pivotal places.
Overall it is a beautiful re-telling of Macbeth, keeping true to the script but taking a twist on a unique element. Macbeth at the Barbican is not to be missed.
Despite a cast including Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack, this proves another disappointment of a Macbeth as the RSC starts is autumn residency at the Barbican.
Rebel And Misfits transports audiences to the middle of a pulsing, modernized interpretation of Macbeth in the third installment of its Immersive Theatre Project, where a roughly 10 minute b…
There is a peculiar absence of majesty at the heart of the National Theatre's touring production of Macbeth.
Is it ironic that the most emotionally powerful scene of the RSC's Macbeth at the Barbican comes in a rare moment of silence and stillness, a scene when the Macbeths are nowhere to be seen?
