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Macbeth
Shakespeare’s Globe, London SE1
3/5
IF EMMA Rice, the new artistic director at Shakespeare’s Globe, wants everyone to know that there is someone different in charge at the theatre then she has certainly succeeded.
Following a radical reworking of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a more traditional Taming of the Shrew comes this Iqbal Khan production of the Bard’s Macbeth, which often seems not to know which of those two camps it wants to fall into.
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