The cover of the programme for Sydney Theatre Company’s minimalist new Macbeth is as stripped as Birnam Wood will be by the play’s end. There are no words — no title, no byline for the greatest writer in history — just a black-backdropped close-up photograph of Hugo Weaving, as high-domed as Jack Nicholson and maybe just as crazy.
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