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I did Macbeth when I was at school, abridged, and in our English lessons and although it was awesome (I did the lights), this was just slightly better.

Be fair though. We didn’t have a lot of money (approximately none), and we were 12. Also, none of us had ever been a space captain. We also weren’t allowed to have guns. Or hardcore porn. Or a lift/elevator.

My stunningly awesome wife got us tickets to see Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s amazing Harvey theatre. In my limited experience it’s rivalled for grandeur and jawdropping rawness perhaps only by the United Palace (where we saw Iggy Pop & The Stooges about a year ago). But the show. What a show! Even though they put all their money into a that cool lift at the back so they didn’t have enough for curtains, I figured it was a pretty good stab at it.

Look, who am I to review it? Read the Telegraph from last year, or today’s New York Times, or the piece the NYT did a couple of weeks ago on the old PS himself.

If you have the money it costs to get tickets for this show (since it’s sold out and scalpers are scalping buyers), get them. If I had $500 a ticket, I’d pay it - it’s a once-in-a-lifetime production and I’m going to try to see it again before they up sticks and bugger off on March 22nd.

Thank you, DMC, but don’t forget I paid for the cab and bought you a burger…