And her lines are often obscured by a quartet of warblers in the gallery who croon melodies during her finest speeches. How did this overworked skivvy nab a husband who looks like Norway’s Olympic pole-vault champion? He’s all Sloane Square, she’s all car-boot sale. We first meet her as she slobs around the castle in an oversized T-shirt and a pair of saggy tracksuit bottoms like a stressed-out A&E nurse. A gap of some years separates the athletically handsome Max Bennett from Matti Houghton’s Lady Macbeth who seems to pay little attention to her appearance. The Macbeths’ touchy-feely relationship looks very off-kilter. What’s really missing is the play’s essence: the air of mystery, foreboding, evil, darkness.
It’s hard to reconcile these inconsistencies with the narrative. Macbeth looks as slick as James Bond but he can’t kill Duncan with a Walther PPK so he uses a kitchen chopper instead, and he manages to spill a jar of blackcurrant juice all over his dress shirt while he does so. The visual details jar constantly with Shakespeare’s storyline which requires the characters to commit murders with blades, like teenage thugs. The men look trim in their tuxedos and shiny black shoes while the women swish about in designer frocks and stilettos. When Duncan retreats to Macbeth’s castle, the courtiers tear off their battle fatigues and climb into formal evening wear. The show unfolds like a backstage bitch fight between a group of middle managers at a corporate awards ceremony. And if unlettered Londoners in the 17th century could understand history, we should try to emulate them.īut this production won’t let us. The Jacobeans who witnessed the first performance in 1606 were more remote in time from the historic Macbeth (born circa 1005) than we are from the Jacobeans. A puzzling costume for a tribal leader who just spent the day hacking her enemies to pieces with a longsword and a flanged mace.Īnd it may be incorrect to assume that the early medieval period is too difficult for a modern audience to grasp. She strides on to the battlefield in the opening scene sporting a beautiful cream trouser suit and a salon-perfect ash-blonde hairdo.
And King Duncan, benefitting from equality legislation, has been transformed into an alpha female: ‘Queen Duncan’, as everyone calls her. The Scottish soldiery favour black body armour like SAS recruits or Metropolitan Police officers. Abigail Graham’s up-to-the-minute production offers a few nods to history, like the eagle masks worn by the three witches, but for some reason they speak in dense cockney accents and wear biohazard suits. The listing broker’s offer of compensation is made only to participants of the MLS where the listing is filed.Macbeth at the Globe wants to put us at our ease and make us feel comfortable with the play’s arcane world of ghouls, hallucinations and murderous prophecies. Home sale data is not an appraisal, CMA, competitive or comparative market analysis, or home valuation of any property.Ĭopyright 2023 Triangle MLS, Inc. Closed data is not available until the sale of the property is recorded in the MLS. of North Carolina, Internet Data Exchange Database.Ĭlosed (sold) listings may have been listed and/or sold by a real estate firm other than the firm(s) featured on this website.
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