Lady Macbeth

First Feature Competition Adapted from Nikolai Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, first published in Dostoyevsky’s magazine Epoch in 1865, William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth promised to be a dark tale of love and deceit. This it was not. Boring rather than brooding, Lady Macbeth never truly finds its feet, despite a couple of glimmerings…

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