By William Shakespeare
Directed by Rupert Goold
Synopsis: Set in an industrial chamber that is equally military hospital ward, kitchen, torture chamber, and abattoir, Goold's eerily modern Macbeth rings with the echoes of Stalinist terror. Macbeth is a decorated and loyal war hero, but loyalty only goes so far when greatness and history beckon and murder is only a matter of military coups and secret assassinations.
NEW YORK TIMES:
"Rupert Goold’s good and nasty interpretation of “Macbeth,” now chilling the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music through March 22, has enough flash, blood and mutilated bodies to satisfy a Wes Craven fan. Set within a joyless, stark environment that resembles nothing so much as a morgue, this traveling production from the Chichester Festival Theater is also replete with eye-boggling technical effects that summon the Age of Stalin as imagined by George Orwell in “1984.”"
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NEW YORK POST:
"NOT since Roman Polanski's film ver sion has there been as visceral a "Macbeth" as this acclaimed British production starring Patrick Stewart. Director Rupert Goold's brilliantly theatrical stylings are fascinating, even if they threaten at times to overwhelm the simple power of one of Shakespeare's most direct and accessible works, and stretch what's normally the shortest of the Bard's works into a three-hour marathon."
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
"Macbeth may lose everything, including his head, but the charismatic Stewart gives a star performance in this daring Chichester Festival Theatre production, which is drenched in blood and dripping in imagination. "
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NEW YORK SUN:
"Set amid the depravity of Stalinist Russia and firmly anchored by a wrathful Patrick Stewart, director Rupert Goold's daring and diabolical mounting turns all of Scotland into a virtual abattoir, peopled with little more than a pile of corpses that an ever-dwindling coterie of survivors must climb over on the way to a gore-slicked crown"
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THEATERMANIA:
"Watching Goold's macabre take on the Bard's familiar tale of vaulting ambition and corrosive guilt is like groping through a carnival funhouse and whispering to a happily thrilled-and-chilled companion, "Ooh, look at that, and look at that over there and, hey, look at this here!" He's avidly processed abundant ideas on shaking up the war-riddled warhorse that are almost unfailingly eye-popping and ear-catching."
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VARIETY:
"Exactly how well Stewart is served by the blood-soaked flamboyance of Rupert Goold's overburdened production will be a matter of taste, but the rising-star Brit director's "Macbeth" is as cinematic as it is boldly theatrical. It may not always elucidate the plot or characters to best advantage but it sure keeps you glued."
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