Kenneth Branagh brings his visceral "Macbeth" to the Park AvenueArmory in New York.Any new...SARAH LYALL
To achieve success in: have made a go of the business. make away with 1. To carry off; steal. 2. To use up or consume. 3. To kill or destroy. make believe To pretend. make bold To venture: I will not make so bold as to criticize such a scholar. make book To accept bets on...
They were made to pay for the damage. One woman was made to wait more than an hour. 4. used to mean 'be' Make is sometimes used instead of 'be' to say how successful someone is in a particular job or role. For example, instead of saying 'He will be a good prime minister', yo...
A castle built atop Dunsinane Hill in Scotland is one of the dramatic backdrops to the blood-soaked horror of Shakespeare's shortest tragedy,Macbeth.Today,the hill has the remains of two forts,one of which is the site on...
I press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives, to swear and to forswear: according as marriage binds and blood breaks: a poor virgin, sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own; a poor humour of mine, sir, to take that that no man else will: rich honesty...
Even as a corpse, he had told us, he will drink hot blood, “while Zeus is Zeus and Apollo true”. Antigone’s love and pity, her desire for forgiveness and reconciliation, are human: but Oidipous’ insistence upon the ancient laws, “honoured of old”, is divine. Good and Evil don...
Five families agreed to let their children play "Macbeth" for two hours after school. This proved to be so much fun that, within weeks, Esquith had 28 kids happily soaking up the drama of blood and betrayal in medieval Scotland. They were learning many words they had never heard before. ...
Initially, the pacing is uneven but Welles doesn’t pull any punches in the blood and thunder second half. He brings this brutal play to a quivering climax in the breathtaking scenes of MacBeth’s slaughter of MacDuff’s wife and children, Lady MacBeth’s suicidal plunge, the outlaw King’...
10.Throne of Blood(1957) Why It’s No. 10:Few have ever improved upon Shakespeare. But with respect to the Bard:Throne of Blood(the American title of Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation ofMacbeth) is a Hall of Fame title. (It’s also a better title than the film’s original Japanese name,...
The tart crust is almost cookie-like, while the frangipane filling is like a gooey brownie surrounding the boozy pears. Drizzled with a little red wine syrup (disturbingly blood-like), this dessert will be a fabulous finish to any Halloween dinner party!