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Presentation was continuous on a serviceable set whose massive appearance when the stage was empty was in tune with the play's atmosphere, its three staircases leading up to an inclined platform above head-height and equally valid for castle interiors and blasted heaths. The consequent pace (with entrances for a new scene hot on the heels of exits of the last) was almost bewildering, but it reinforced the urgency of the action… Played without an interval…. The witches - pastel-robed sylphides, choreographically spotted on different planes, infinitely seductive, and whispering suggestively around the auditorium with electronic assistance - were (to put it mildly) a debatable departure from stage tradition…The introduction of the witches into the dagger scene, while hardly Shakespearean, lent a nice depth to the suggestive connection between the psychotic which is embedded in the play. Moving in simian postures, almost on all fours, and emitting subhuman grunts,,,,. |
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