"A clever update on Navy Pier. Director Barbara Gaines conjures a genuine bloodbath in her new production for Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

It is so chock full of images, so packed with ideas that you might find yourself reeling at certain points. But you will never be bored."
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"In Barbara Gaines' rollicking, restless, R-rated, and recession-busting production, the action bounces from press conference to airport to strip club to a video-conferencing room where ghosts fly across the Internet."
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"One of Chicago's top teams.

Ms. Gaines and her first-class cast have the immediacy of a fast car shrieking down a long, straight stretch of road."
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"One of those big-shouldered, high-spirited productions that Chicago loves.

When it's all over, one cold clear fact remains: this production took me closer to the heart of darkness that lies inside Shakespeare's shortest and most intense tragedy than any I have seen before."
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"The escalating energy of Barbara Gaines’ staging fuels a depiction of galloping guilt, driving Macbeth to his doom.

Visceral and universal...Gaines’ techno-savvy production amounts to a theatrical triumph."
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"An unquestionable masterwork of invention.

There is something exhilarating about watching a brilliant theatrical imagination at full tilt...the CST Macbeth is well worth seeing.

Ben Carlson [as Macbeth] takes the role by the throat as a man inexorably caught in a downward spiral of blood lust and slaughter."