Macduff 1 Branagh 0

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Even after 24 hrs. Branagh's Macbeth has failed to improve in the mind. Perhaps it might have been different if it were a 'real play which I see before me' (rather than NT live), but I suspect I have become too much the modernist; these traditional productions full of sound and fury, signifying nothing (little) for me today. Lady Macbeth and the witches also disappoint, although Macduff was wonderful.