Theatre critics don’t get out much, or rather they get out all the time but only to the theatre. They become suspicious when aliens from the Planet Television or the Star System Hollywood are beamed between their proscenium arches. Expect, then, resistance when Sean Bean, ITV’s sometime Captain Sharpe, plays Macbeth in the West End next month. “What bloody man is that?”, they will ask. “Has Bean’s vaulting ambition not o’er leapt itself?” they will go on — for the text of Macbeth is of great assistance when it comes to introductory paragraphs. [More]

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