Legendary Samurai 'Macbeth' Production Returns After More Than Three Decades

"When it visited the Edinburgh Festival in 1985, this Macbeth" - staged by the revered Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa with his company, Saitama Arts Theater - "was declared an 'overnight legend', with critics praising its bold gestures and painterly beauty." Saitama has now prepared a touring revival, which is coming to Britain next month, and, writes Andrew Dickson, it "still makes much homegrown Shakespeare look pallid."

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