Reader Reviews
Macbeth (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End)
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 | As an American college student, I have been taught to RESPECT a producer's wish to make a play deconstructive. I think many people overlooked the fact that it was deconstructive. I thoroughly enjoyed the production and found the twists that Tim Carroll put in refreshing -- something other than actors parading around the stage in archaic outfits and with archaic attitudes. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 31 Oct 01 |
| What a shame to have such a great play utterly ruined by directorial arrogance. I am all for freshness and vision but only if it complements and illuminates the text. This production did neither. It lacked atmosphere and intelligence and was a disgraceful waste of the actors' talents. Unfortunately I took along some friends who had never seen a Shakespeare play before....and who will now never see another. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 10 Sep 01 |
| As Americans, we had the Globe on the top of our list on a recent trip to London. Our teenage daughter, who had just studied "Macbeth" in school, was particularly eager to see it performed in the Elizabethan playhouse. To say that the three of us were disappointed is to put it mildly. This is the worst Shakespeare production I've ever seen--pretentious and silly, and ultimately, boring, the worst sin of all. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 18 Aug 01 |
| Excellent! For once the stage was not dark-lit-by-candles, the actors did not shout, Lady Macbeth did not pull her hair and there was no blood streaming down the stage. And those fantastic witches! And the chess-like costumes and setting! I only wish King Lear (on at The Globe) had been as fresh and new. From a French English teacher. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 04 Jul 01 |
| I've seen some 80-odd productions of Shakespeare's plays in the last dozen or so years. Macbeth is a particular favorite of mine. I've seen at least a half-dozen productions of the 'Scottish play', and found something to like in all of them, before now. This is the second-worst Shakespeare production I have ever seen, surpassed in its awfulness only by an Off-Off-Off-Off-Broadway production of Cymbeline that I saw (part of) a few years ago. (I left at the interval.) I forced myself to stay with this one to the end, to give it a chance to get better. It never did. I've seen some good things at the Globe before this one, and I hope to see more. But I'm going to wait awhile before I go back. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 30 Jun 01 |
| Quite simply the best production of Macbeth I have ever seen. Why? Because it wasn't boring, it was fresh, it was new and it worked. Critics should stop mumbling about what Shakespeare 'should' be and start appreciating what others think - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 22 Jun 01 |
| Cooter's comments are spot on. this is dreadful. You may be able to get away with it in some experimental side street warehouse but the Globe is not the place for it. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 22 Jun 01 |
| Utter rubbish. All I can say in its favour is that it has novelty value - I've never seen Macbeth played as a comedy before. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 13 Jun 01 |
| Eve Best is the most over-rated actor in London. Her nascent career is an example of how young actors can actually turn out as mannered and prescious as Jane Lapotaire or Diana Rigg in later life. She is as representative of my generation as Keith Joseph. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 13 Jun 01 |
| A very enjoyable production, although it took some time for me to get into it. - USER: Whatsonstage.com | 07 Jun 01 |
