Have just returned from seeing Macbeth at BAM. Will be exhausted for many days to come, I’d say. From Ben Brantley’s review:

 Mr. Goold, a fast-rising director in London, has clearly thought through his conceit of the play as a portrait of a totalitarian tyrant and the paranoiac world he engenders. But there have been many fascist-themed versions of “Macbeth” over the years. What makes this one a must-see is Mr. Stewart’s thrilling recognition that his character is as close kin to the fatally introspective Hamlet as he is to power-wielding men of ill will like Richard III.

It was interesting to see that one of the few scenes where the title character didn’t appear (Act IV, scene III — thanks, Google!) draw a smattering of applause from the crowd when it ended. Damn fine work from Michael Feast (Macduff) and Scott Handy (Malcolm) as well, I thought…