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. The post Review: Macbeth at the National Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
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…
Here at the National, as with many other attempts, the production's vision lacks real purpose and fails to engage with the complex motivation of Macbeth himself, leaving him and us nowhere t…
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The show began performances at the Olivier Theatre February 26.
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…
Night clubbers, taxidermy and a decapitated head in a box: Ka Bradley reviews the Marc Bruce Company's dance adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy The post Review: Macbeth at Wilton’s Mu…
Rufus Norris returns to Shakespeare after 25 years with a starry production at the National in London. Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton dropped in for an exclusive look Continue reading…
Wilton's Music Hall; Hackney Showroom, LondonThe heart's deepest desires are visited by Jonathan Goddard's lean and savage thane and Sweetshop Revolutions's celebration of sexual awakeningTh…
Macbeth is an obvious box office draw for the theatre and the work is fundamentally solid, but it's hard to shake the feeling it's all a little safe, except for one performance that Bristol …