How do you reinvent the wheel? This is a problem that exists for any company that seeks to rejuvenate Shakespeare's most beloved and most often performed plays – Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour Lost and so on.
Sometimes it works, as with 2014's Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse, and sometimes it doesn't, such as this touring production of Macbeth, which I saw at the Lowry Theatre in Manchester.
It is my belief that Shakespeare works best when the language is allowed to speak for itself. When the wordplay and subtlety is allowed to take centre stage, with set design and costume highlighting the ingenuity. This production takes the opposite approach, with confusing and often disjointed staging.
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