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Crown of Blood review " Macbeth's deadly hurly-burly rooted in mythic Yoruba landscape

by Mark Fisher

Crucible, SheffieldThe supernatural is all-encompassing in Oladipo Agboluaje's reframing of Shakespeare's power play in 19th-century west Africa Every time the court historian turns up, he has a new list of phenomena to report. Arokin (Toyin Oshinaike) brings news of a flying elephant, a gorilla with a tortoise shell and a woman with vipers for hair. There has been a lot of this since Aderemi (Deyemi Okanlawon) retur…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:36pm on February 4, 2026