I could sit and ramble for years about how much I bloody adore Macbeth but a review for this specific production isn’t the time nor place. I’m really gutted because I had tickets for this when it played Liverpool but because of surgery, I missed it. And after watching the stage production on screen it makes me yearn to watch it live.
I don’t know if it’s the actual broadcasting of ‘stage on screen’ in general or the actual re-telling or blocking of this piece but it just wasn’t for me. I adore Ralph Fiennes, and with a character so synonymous in literature I get that you have to let your interpretation permeate through your performances but some instances were just a bit, odd. Though I did quite enjoy a more weary, older and bruised Macbeth, it added a different twist yet to a somewhat bittersweet note. I think he went a little too far. Indira Varma plays Lady Macbeth well but restrained - probably to combat her partners wry meekness. Ben Turner as Macduff blew me away tho, a lil highlight.
I will always find it hard to suspend my belief when it comes to modernising Shakespeare and I didn’t find that too distracting on the most part for this interpretation. Again, I can’t state enough how much I probably would’ve enjoyed this seeing it in person.
I could sit and ramble for years about how much I bloody adore Macbeth but a review for this specific production isn’t the time nor place. I’m really gutted because I had tickets for this when it played Liverpool but because of surgery, I missed it. And after watching the stage production on screen it makes me yearn to watch it live.
I don’t know if it’s the actual broadcasting of ‘stage on screen’ in general or the actual re-telling or blocking of this piece but it just wasn’t for me. I adore Ralph Fiennes, and with a character so synonymous in literature I get that you have to let your interpretation permeate through your performances but some instances were just a bit, odd. Though I did quite enjoy a more weary, older and bruised Macbeth, it added a different twist yet to a somewhat bittersweet note. I think he went a little too far. Indira Varma plays Lady Macbeth well but restrained - probably to combat her partners wry meekness. Ben Turner as Macduff blew me away tho, a lil highlight.
I will always find it hard to suspend my belief when it comes to modernising Shakespeare and I didn’t find that too distracting on the most part for this interpretation. Again, I can’t state enough how much I probably would’ve enjoyed this seeing it in person.
