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Theatre babel's Macbeth is unashamedly atmospheric, from the glinting swords that hang menacingly beautiful above the actors' heads to the dry ice that perpetually shrouds the stage in so fair and foul a mist. The simple and moody set coupled with an unsettling soundtrack boded well for this rendition of the Scottish play, but while the visuals and the feel were right the show itself didn’t quite match up to its slick staging.
Graham McLaren's production bravely turns away from the political in Shakespeare’s text, choosing instead to delve into the morality, or rather immorality, of Macbeth's actions. The Thane‘s hunger for the throne is not dismissed as Machiavellian plotting but laid bare as pure unadulterated evil. Increasingly satanic as the show nears its apocalyptic end, John Kazek and Rebecca Rodgers turn in strong performances as Macbeth and his tortured wife. Indeed, it is Kazek‘s fiendisth horrifying murder scenes and mad hissing soliloquies that save the play from a slow descent into dreariness.
But in between the madness and murder the pace drops and the relentless soundtrack begins to interfere as actors compete to be heard over menacing whispers and funereal bells. It is during these slower moments that the show loses its way and its interest. All, however, is not lost. For, just as you let your guard drop, another scene leaps wild-eyed and demented from the wings and grabs you by the jugular. And, it is during these flashes of brilliance that you can but yield to McLaren‘s vision. (Corrie Mills)
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