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Title: Interesting but not compelling rendition of Macbeth
Review: Anyone with the chutzpah to transform Scottish kinship wars to the Melbourne underground deserves a pat on the back. To do this, however, the scriptwriters had to chop and move important parts of the text. To make it modern, rock music plays behind the machine-gun scenes. To make it sexy, the witches are transformed into nubile schoolgirls with unlimited libidos. To give it gravitas, nearly all the male parts are played with sullen indifference, off-looks, and head nods.Besides all this, there's the problem of understanding Australian English, with its flat A's; and keeping track of which actor is playing which character, or who just gunned down whom.I found it amusing that Cawdor was transformed into a big rock club for druggies, of which Macbeth becomes thane. There's no possibility of nobility in the Cawdor club......hmmm......it's hard to play Shakespearean tragedy with an anti-hero motif.
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