Benefitting from a Scottish cast and a rewritten Porter’s speech by Lee, Wils Wilson’s production gets at the demonic drive of people desperate for power but hopeless in office
at Shakespeare’s Globe, the RSC’s will soon be followed by productions from English Touring Theatre, the Donmar and a touring version with Ralph Fiennes.
Unusually, it is cast authentically Scottish, led by Reuben Joseph’s compelling Macbeth. Hinting at demonic possession, he brings a clarifying agony to the soliloquies, suggesting a future Hamlet and Othello.
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