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The moment you step into the Old Globe's outdoor theater and see bandaged soldiers laying in beds (before the show even begins), you know this isn't a traditional staging of "Macbeth."
The brutal tale instead opens in a sterile hospital where soldiers recover from battles, and where patients recite the lines usually reserved for the prophesizing witches.
The actors are top-notch and the World War I-inspired setting is sparse and creepy, adding a new dimension of dread to an already macabre play.