Review of Macbeth

The second in the series of B.B.C.'s "Shakespeare Re-told" this version of "Macbeth" is a huge disappointment after "Much Ado About Nothing" last week. The writers succeeded in complicating this most straight forward of Shakespearian tragedies. The dark mood of the original is preserved but the pace is slow and the plot tedious. Decent performances from the leading characters do little to lift this dull production out of the dramatic mire. Transferring Shakespeare's great portrayal of power and ambition to a twenty-first century restaurant was always going to be problematical, but to be honest, this is a botched effort that should have been aborted half way through the project.

Interesting updating of the witches to bin men on a dump though.