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Macbeth, RSC, Barbican review - tense but flawed take on Shakespeare's blood-boltered tragedy

by Heather Neill

Horror flick echoes fail to meet all the play's challengesIt has been said before: Macbeth's reputation for bad luck has more to do with the difficulty of bringing off a successful production than the supernatural elements in the play. Even those of us who have seen dozens of interpretations can count the number which "worked" on the fingers of one hand, and veterans still recall Trevor Nunn's 1976 production, s…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 9:06pm on October 23, 2018