The Stranger, June 14th, 2007
Macbeth
dir. Geoffrey Wright
The opening scene of Macbeth is a keeper: Three witchy, redheaded schoolgirls desecrate a graveyard with screwdrivers and bloody paint They shriek and giggle; they gouge the eyes of angels; their callous, pale beauty is more alarming than any warty "black and midnight hags" hunched over a stewpot.
This could be good, you think, an Australian update of that old Shakespeare yarn. I like Australians, you think. I like scary redheads. I like-wait, what's that Asian vampire goth raver gang doing here? Where did 1997 come from? Did Macbeth just turn on that fog machin...
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