When I decided to embark on this blog, I never intended it to be anything more than a blog upon which to display my fiction writing. However, last Wednesday (May 16th) I attended the matinee of Macbeth at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon. I had, admittedly, heard mixed reviews about it on social media outlets, with the audience apparently being strongly divided between loving and hating the portrayal of the play. Some people had reported that Lord and Lady Macbeth (Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack respectively) did not seem as passionate or engaged as the play necessarily needed, while others had trouble hearing some lines or disliked the new version of the witches. Other people were quick to praise the performance and hold it to high acclaim. But from the looks of it, a lot of the critics have given the play some bad press, insisting that it is mumbled, poorly executed in relation to respecting the rhyme and rhythm of Shakespeare's lines, and overall