Macbeth, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC
Indira Varna and Ralph Fiennes in the Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Macbeth . Photo by Marc Brenner. Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) has extended its space for its current production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth , as adapted by Emily Burns, to the former studios of Black Entertainment Television at 1301 W St. in Northeast DC. The former soundstage takes on the feel of an industrial warehouse for this “environmental production.” Somehow losing the “trappings” of the fine Sidney Harman Hall, where one might have expected to find this performance, focuses us more clearly on the reality of each unfolding moment. Conceived by STC artistic director Simon Godwin and acclaimed English actor Ralph Fiennes, who stars as Macbeth, the production was staged in similar “found” spaces in Liverpool, Edinburgh, and London, before coming to Washington. It is fitting that a play about a man with an unquenchable thirst for power, spurred on by a wife who shares (and perhaps even exceeds) his