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I would call this a traditional production; costumed 'in period', and performed without tricks or interpretation - the ghost merely walks on and off, the witches do the same. Perhaps Max Stafford-Clark's production has spoiled me for anything so tame but I just did not feel any of the emotions being portrayed, it just didn't ring true. In fact, when Macduff's baby is drowned and Banquo's ghost passes through there were audible titters from the audience. The words, as always with Creation, were well and clearly spoken, the space was used well and the acting was workmanlike but the fire was not there, or at least, the audience was not lit by the fire. Eleanor Montgomery as Lady Macbeth continues to impress and Angus Brown's Macduff and Tom Peters Macbeth were very strongly played but the remainder seemed lost and, at times like during the witches scenes, faintly embarrassed.
The location, of course, is a magnificent one and the creperie and bar provide, at least on dry nights, an excellent evening out, perhaps, though, it is an environment suited best to lighter entertainments.
