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When the Royal Shakespeare Company begins to work to its new schedule next year - with a second regional residency in Plymouth and several fewer openings in its shorter 26-week London season - it will have to strive correspondingly harder to cover all areas of its existing repertoire. For instance, there is no need to stage Macbeth only two years after its last RSC production, still less to stage it in as dull a form as Tim Albery has done.
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Philip Quast's Banquo and Colum Convey's Macduff grow close at times to striking a workable medium, but then flounder again in the morass of style-over-content.
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