Patrick Stewart as Soviet Macbeth

Terry Teachout reviews a couple strong plays, the first of which is a Soviet-styled Macbeth. “Mr. Goole’s staging is a prosy, purposefully unmagical updating of Shakespeare’s tragedy in which the action is transplanted from ancient Scotland to the Soviet Union in the darkest days of the Great Terror,” he writes, and Patrick Stewart as Macbeth delivers his role with lines which “still make you feel as though they’d just been written.”

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