Articles about Macbeth
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Rupert Goold can quite simply do Shakespeare on stage. With this visually beguiling Macbeth, he again proves his distinctive ability to transform a well-known play into a sensory and thought-provoking experience.
British director Rupert Goold, however, while giving us a fascinating pair of Macbeths - Patrick Stewart is superb in the title role - has created the most striking dramatic setting for them…
SITI Company injects Shakespeare with radio and Orson Welles.Take a moment to close your eyes: Imagine a castle where a vicious soldier sneaks into a king’s bedroom and stabs him while…
Indeed, the production benefits immeasurably from its newly intimate confines, which only serve to accentuate its considerable intensity.
The milk of human kindness, always a rare commodity in Shakespeare's spare but unsparing 'Macbeth,' is nowhere to be found in Rupert Goold's scorched-earth production.
Patrick Stewart's turn as Macbeth offers a commanding, meticulously shaded performance in a production generally far less subtle, but unstinting in high-style inventiveness.
This "Macbeth" is also confoundingly easy on the nerves: Macblah.
With Kelly McGillis and Patrick Page.
For all the conceptual framing and cinematic shock tactics, the ensemble delivers a smart, accessible reading of the text, grounded by Stewart's gravitas and those velvety vocal cords.
His Macbeth is never more or less than a man; a tyrant, yes, but a pitiable one who's only ever longed to be more than he is. At portraying this, Stewart unquestionably succeeds, while the rest of this Macbeth more visibly boils in the toil and trouble of finding itself.
The problem is that all of these atmospherics become so confoundedly busy -- especially so with designer Lorna Heavey's extremely complicated video projections -- that the narrative tends to…
Jay O. Sanders has an ''Oh, yeah, that guy'' kind of face. You've probably seen him in movies, noticed him on ''Law & Order,'' maybe heard his voice on an audiobook. A lot of people, he says…
The big idea in this mounting of "Macbeth" is to enact almost all of it in full light. But the stark lighting on the scenery-less stage covered in white vinyl only seems to rob the productio…
Two new productions of Shakespeare's shortest and bloodiest tragedy have arrived in town. Both are departures from the expected.
All hail the Thane of Cawdor all hail Macbeth - all hail Patrick Stewart in the title role, giving a performance for the ages, under the superb direction of Rupert Goold.
Charles Spencer reviews Macbeth at The Gielgud Theatre
Following a London West End run in December 2007, a sold-out limited engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in March 2008, and a subsequent eight-week run on Broadway, director Rupert G…
