Macbeth Reimagined
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Helmi Yusof
Ninagawa Company's version of Macbeth rivals almost any superior production of the Shakespeare classic you've seen - and that includes Akira Kurosawa's Throne Of Blood in 1957 and Kenneth Branagh's live staging in an abandoned Manchester church in 2013.
Late director Yukio Ninagawa imagined it as samurai tragedy in feudal Japan, filled with exquisite period costumes and bloody katana-fights amid an endless cascade of cherry blossoms. It was staged once in Singapore in 1992. And it's taken 25 years for the Japanese theatre company to bring it here again. Don't miss it.
Ninagawa Macbeth plays on Nov 25 at 8pm at the Esplanade. Tickets from Sistic.
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