Gritty and brutal treatment of Bard’s darkest play

Gritty and brutal treatment of Bard’s darkest play

A BARREN, unwelcoming sports bar or social club somewhere on the fringes of Glasgow’s sectarian underbelly is hardly the ideal place for a night out and certainly on the face of it not somewhere you’d expect to find a gem as polished as this. But Daniel Raggett’s gritty, visceral staging of this perennially dark play has the style and panache to take such an earthy theme and stay with it all the way through. The RSC has staged a multitude of ter…