Three Shakespeare plays

For the October issue of Auditorium - out now! - I braved the West End for two attacks on Shakespeare. In retrospect, I was probably slightly harsh on one, and generous with the other, but although they both lacked a particularly dazzling interpretation, in terms of the quality and polish of the experience they provided, they were worlds apart. Neither of them rivalled Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth in Manchester, though, which was so memorable that even months later it feels more recent - a dusty trudge through industrial wastelands followed by an intense and bloody spell.

Originally published in Auditorium magazine, October 2013.