Review: Macbeth
One of Shakespeare's darkest and most powerful tragedies, Macbeth was first performed at the beginning of the seventeenth century and has had countless adapta...
Macbeth
An actor writes: If an actress performs in a play, and no industry professionals are around to see it, does she make a sound?
I’ve come to the end of our run, looked around, and realised that of the roughly eleventy-billion industry professionals I invited to see me in Macbeth, precise...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Bunker Trilogy – Macbeth
(3/5)
Around halfway through Jethro Compton’s The Bunker Trilogy production of Macbeth, fireworks start going off signalling the end of the Tattoo. It feels f...
Blog: An actor writes – It is the cry of women: all-female(ish) Shakespeare
Shaking up the genders has always been trendy in Shakespeare. Far cleverer and better-informed people than me have written fat books about it, and that’s be...
Blog: An actor writes – opening night
Tonight is opening night. The red carpet has been swept and the champagne glasses polished. The press are camped outside the stage door, poised to snap the ...
Review: Macbeth
A dystopian Scotland, separated from the UK due to years of economic disaster, is the setting for Jamie Lloyd’s fast paced, high-energy production of Macbeth. A...