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:

29 March 2011

Director Ricky Dukes, with his Lazarus Theatre Company of 19 young actors brings us an atmospheric, highly charged and thought provoking 95 minute version of the play. Stripped to the bare essentials of the storyline the plot, like a murder mystery, unravels before us as we witness the forces and events that unfold as foretold futures are made real by diabolical means.

With the cast mainly in black costumes that defy time and space it creates both echoes of the past and the present and really accentuates the part of Lady Macbeth as she enters in her long crimson evening dress to persuade and arraign her husband into doing the deed, by calling into question his ‘manhood’ whilst at the same time calling on the dark arts to 'unsex' her. It is a powerful and charismatic performance by Victoria Sye, not the classic image but one that she makes her own, one that grows in stature with her control and disintegrates so well once she loses it.

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