Macbeth articles
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Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma Soar in STC's 'Macbeth' (Review)
The Shakespeare offers an alchemy of cast, style, vision, and a chance to see Ralph Fiennes embody a consummate Macbeth.
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Review: Ralph Fiennes, an older Macbeth, builds sympathy for a killer with soulful weariness
“Macbeth” is littered with casualties — and not only on the fictional battlefield. The tragedy has taken down a battalion of the finest directors and actors, who have fallen victim to the play’s real curse: its deceptive dramatic difficulty. The problem is counterintuitive. Why does a play as spellbindingly theatrical as “Macbeth” excite an audience's interest only to exhaust it by the end? Macbeth’s path as protagonist is a strange one. At the start of the play, he’s a war hero with conspicuous...