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Macbeth (an undoing), Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh - audacious update of the Scottish play

by David Kettle

Zinnie Harris reimagines Shakespeare to compelling effect, making the audience complicit You'd hardly call a director particularly perceptive for highlighting Lady Macbeth as the true power behind the throne, scheming and cajoling her husband's bloody ascent to the crown. In her audacious, provocative and thoroughly compelling Macbeth (an undoing), however, writer/director Zinnie Harris goes much, much further " so …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 1:22am on February 13, 2023