WHILE setting Shakespeare in a psychiatric unit isn’t a new idea, neither is it uncommon for real life patients in such institutions to construct such elaborate self-destructive fantasies with themselves at their fragile world’s centre.
MACBETH, TRAMWAY, GLASGOW * * * *
Both concepts rub up against each other in the National Theatre of Scotland’s boldly audacious reimagining of the Scottish play, which sees Alan Cumming act out the entire play alone onstage for an hour-and-three-quarters.
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