Read more about the article REVIEW: The Tragedy of Macbeth, Almeida (2021)
James McArdle as Macbeth and Saoirse Ronan as Lady Macbeth

REVIEW: The Tragedy of Macbeth, Almeida (2021)

What Yaël Farber has constructed is a Macbeth full of action and visual, visceral excitement. Still moments are rare as there is almost always something to watch.  Along with the audience are the three Weird Sisters (Diane Fletcher, Valerie Lilley and Maureen Hibbert) who watch from the back of the smoky stage throughout the play when they are not speaking their ominously accurate predictions.  The programme explains that the histories of the Wyrd sisters "are a reformed patchwork of myths and narratives…. who hold all destinies in their hands."

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Love and Other Acts of Violence <br> Donmar Warehouse (2021)
Abigail Wesinstock as HER and Tom Mothersdale as HIM (Photo: Helen Murray)

REVIEW: Love and Other Acts of Violence
Donmar Warehouse (2021)

Is violence genetically transmitted? "You see mine is also a history of disaster. My people a humiliated people."Man Abigail Weinstock as HER and Tom Mothersdale as HIM (Photo: Helen Murray)…

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Donmar Warehouse (2021)
Read more about the article REVIEW: The Cherry Orchard, Theatre Royal Windsor  (2021)
Francesca annis as Madame Ranyevskaya and Ian McKellen as Firs (Photo: Jack Merriman)

REVIEW: The Cherry Orchard, Theatre Royal Windsor (2021)

Commotion greets the arrival of the carriages carrying Madame Ranyevskaya (Francesca Annis) and her family.  There are leather suitcases, trunks and hat boxes.  The aged Russian servant Firs (Ian McKellen, playing a man five years older than his actual age) is seen with hairy dundrearies and a bald head but in formal wear. 

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