★★★☆☆Is this king really a tortured, bloodstained murderer? John Simm gives us a usurper who is unobjectionable and quietly spoken and, in the end, upstaged by the visual effects in Paul Miller’s restless production. You can instead spend the performance admiring — and sometimes being irked by — the director’s many and varied flourishes. The three witches, for instance, are not withered hags, but groovy young things who look as if they have just finished partying at Glastonbury. As they unburden themselves of their…

Source: The Times September 29, 2019 23:11 UTC