Trafalgar Studios, central London
This production has a lot going for it. It stars James McAvoy (Atonement, The Last King of Scotland) as Macbeth. It takes place in a reconfigured space that gives this steeply raked theatre greater intimacy. And, in launching a season of plays directed by Jamie Lloyd, it is one more step in the commercial theatre's realisation that its future lies in artistic continuity. But, although it's a good occasion, there's a relentlessly visceral quality to Lloyd's production that eventually becomes a bit wearing.
Lloyd certainly takes a bold line on the play: he sets it in a future Scotland wracked by environmental disaster and tribal conflict. This is a strange, savage, post-apocalyptic world evoked, in Soutra Gilmour's design, by grungy costumes, begrimed toilet bowls and, inevitably, a ceiling of broken glass.
You get the general idea in the first few moments when the three witches appear in gasmasks,...
This production has a lot going for it. It stars James McAvoy (Atonement, The Last King of Scotland) as Macbeth. It takes place in a reconfigured space that gives this steeply raked theatre greater intimacy. And, in launching a season of plays directed by Jamie Lloyd, it is one more step in the commercial theatre's realisation that its future lies in artistic continuity. But, although it's a good occasion, there's a relentlessly visceral quality to Lloyd's production that eventually becomes a bit wearing.
Lloyd certainly takes a bold line on the play: he sets it in a future Scotland wracked by environmental disaster and tribal conflict. This is a strange, savage, post-apocalyptic world evoked, in Soutra Gilmour's design, by grungy costumes, begrimed toilet bowls and, inevitably, a ceiling of broken glass.
You get the general idea in the first few moments when the three witches appear in gasmasks,...
- 2/25/2013
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
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