Lust for power can defy logic. Why does anyone succumb to greed or ambition? Where Shakespeare probes primal urges through poetry and dirty deeds, director Sam Gold seems to question the very point of trying to make sense of them at all. His new Broadway staging of “Macbeth,” top-lined by Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, is an evasive exercise in stylistic provocation. At once stripped-down and gussied up, it’s full of sound and fury without a lot of coherent signifying.
Review: An evasive ‘Macbeth’ strains for coherence
Lust for power can defy logic. Why does anyone succumb to greed or ambition? Where Shakespeare probes primal urges through poetry and dirty deeds, director Sam Gold seems to question the very point of trying to make sense of them at all.
