Tag Archives: macbeth

James McArdle: ‘Boris Johnson missed the point of Macbeth’

Posted on April 19, 2022 by mkmswain

The actor chats the Scottish play and the BBC’s Life After Life. Read my full The i Paper interview here

Posted in Fiction, Journalism, Theatre, TV | Tagged actor, adaptation, almeida theatre, bbc, book, boris johnson, drama, inews, interview, james mcardle, kate atkinson, life after life, london, macbeth, novel, play, Saoirse Ronan, shakespeare, the i paper, theatre, tv | Leave a comment

Hadestown leads November’s Top 10 new London shows

Posted on October 27, 2018 by mkmswain

From new musicals to Shakespeare, Pinter and Magic Mike. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

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Macbeth, National Theatre

Posted on March 7, 2018 by mkmswain

We begin and end with a grisly decapitation. And that’s rather the problem with this intermittently engaging Macbeth, which starts in the throes of some unspecified dystopian hellscape, and thus has nowhere to go. Read my full BroadwayWorld review here

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged anne-marie duff, broadwayworld, london, macbeth, national theatre, review, rory kinnear, rufus norris, shakespeare, theatre | Leave a comment

Macbeth leads March’s Top 10 new London shows

Posted on February 28, 2018 by mkmswain

From Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams to a new epic and a lush romance. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged almeida, best, book tickets, brief encounter, broadwayworld, caroline or change, cheap tickets, comedy, declan bennett, emma rice, empire cinema haymarket, fanny and alexander, gay, gore vidal, hampstead theatre, kevin doyle, kiss of the spider woman, london, lyric hammersmith, macbeth, march, martin shaw, matthew lopez, menier chocolate factory, musical, national theatre, new, old vic, penelope wilton, play, playhouse theatre, rory kinnear, samuel barnett, shakespeare, show, stephen daldry, summer and smoke, tennessee williams, the best play, the great wave, the inheritance, the plough and the stars, theatre, ticket deal, top 10, visit london, west end, young vic | Leave a comment

Macbeth, Shakespeare’s Globe

Posted on June 24, 2016 by mkmswain

It begins promisingly, a dark Gothic fairy tale – both Grimm and grim. The writhing witches (four, oddly) are summoned from a pile of dead bodies, Stefan Fichert’s eerie puppetry all chopped-up limbs and interchanging demonic heads, hands scuttling across … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged drama, globe, iqbal kahn, london, macbeth, ray fearon, review, shakespeare, stage, tara fitzgerald, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre | Leave a comment

Ralph Fiennes’s Richard III Leads June’s Top 10 New London Shows

Posted on May 30, 2016 by mkmswain

From starry Shakespeare and Rattigan productions to big musicals and resonant new plays. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here

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RSC collaborates on Shakespeare In Art exhibition at Compton Verney

Posted on February 11, 2016 by mkmswain

As part of the Bard’s 400th anniversary celebrations, the gallery at Compton Verney in Warwickshire – which is just nine miles away from Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon – has joined forces with the RSC to create a new exhibition. SHAKESPEARE IN … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Journalism, Theatre | Tagged 400, anniversary, art, artist, compton verney, drama, exhibition, film, gallery, hamlet, helen mirren, john singer sargent, judi dench, macbeth, painting, peter hall, photograph, play, rossetti, rsc, shakespeare, shakespeare in art, the tempest, theatre | Leave a comment

Macbeth, Young Vic

Posted on December 4, 2015 by mkmswain

Events have overtaken this Macbeth, dramatically heightening its queasy topicality. Not just brutal beheadings and torture, but the cost and collateral damage of conflict without end, and the scourge of a tyrant slaughtering his own people, strike one anew in … Continue reading →

Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre | Tagged anna maxwell martin, carrie cracknell, dance, death, drama, john heffernan, king, london, lucy guerin, macbeth, movement, murder, play, review, shakespeare, the arts desk, the scottish play, theartsdesk, theatre, war, young vic | 2 Comments

Dead Sheep, Park Theatre

Posted on April 3, 2015 by mkmswain

While seven-way debate rages, broadcaster and debuting playwright Jonathan Maitland takes us back 25 years to a radically different political landscape: a time of regents, and of regicide. It’s 1990 – Thatcher the leader claiming divine right to rule, Geoffrey … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: macbeth

James McArdle: ‘Boris Johnson missed the point of Macbeth’

Hadestown leads November’s Top 10 new London shows

Macbeth, National Theatre

Macbeth leads March’s Top 10 new London shows

Macbeth, Shakespeare’s Globe

Ralph Fiennes’s Richard III Leads June’s Top 10 New London Shows

RSC collaborates on Shakespeare In Art exhibition at Compton Verney

Macbeth, Young Vic

Dead Sheep, Park Theatre

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