THEATER REVIEW: Daniel Craig gets trapped in a ‘Macbeth’ without a clear plan
Gold’s production simply lacks narrative drive. You cannot get fully invested in an evening spent pondering Macbeth’s narrative psyche if you don’t comprehend the world. The Gold outer play is trackable to a point (by the end, it seems like this troop of actors are actually refugees from somewhere, passing the time in limbo), but he is so busy setting the play off at a remove, in building a competing absurdist narrative, he forgets at times to actually do the play, or so it feels.
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