2006
Hampton Court Palace and Lincoln’s Inn
The Oxford Sheakespeare Company were invited by Hampton Court Palace to perform in the Great Hall on the 400th anniversary of what is believed to be the first ever performance in 1606 for James I.
Based on the OSC’s original production in Oxford and Kew Gardens, this time with an 18 strong ensemble.
Set to an eerie score of horn-blasts and choral chants, the OSC’s fluid production, which now transfers to the gardens of Lincoln’s Inn, earns full marks for hackle-raising atmosphere... Jules Blundell, Nicholas Chambers and Howard Gossington have a ball as the ‘weird sisters’, strutting and gurgling as they trigger the tyrannical ambition of their plaything, Macbeth. Jonathan O’Boyle, too, enjoys camping it up as the thane’s venomous wife, here a vamp in a leather corset who has but to raise an eyebrow to manipulate her man.
Alastair Sooke
The Telegraph
The OSC has created an atmosphere befitting their bard... The porter scene – a witty skit mischievously sandwiched between Duncan’s gory murder and the start of the cover up – was one of the best I’ve seen.
Tom Foot
Camden New Journal