Macbeth

Synopsis

The Scottish Play - theatrical types consider saying its name to be unlucky! Thrust into power by his overwhelming desires and an over ambitious wife, Macbeth finds his only security is to murder and murder again. From "When shall we three meet again" to "is this a dagger I see before me" this is a powerful Shakespearean drama.

Our Review:

Scott Purvis - 21 June 2012

It has become rather a familiar sight in the ever-reddening seas of contemporary politics. The people revolt, as they have always done, against one man's cruelties and oust him from the sadistic sovereignty which he bears like a barren sceptre. The dethroned tyrant, prised from his bloody palaces and the formal wears which betray his bloody deeds, is secreted to a medical facility for his own safety, as well as that of the society which he has stomped upon. His mouth is gently opened by a professional in white, his skull unopened by the lynch mobs that await him, and he is swabbed for evidence and profiling. His wedding ring is removed. He is medicated and settled for the night. But this is just the beginning.

It is in this unknown aftermath of a disaster that Black Watch director John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg set their triumphant one-man staging of one of William Shakespeare's most poetically satisfying and dramatically fired works. "A tal...

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