Critic Charles Isherwood says all the negativity of Ping Chong’s “Throne of Blood” He obviously didn’t enjoy the play and even states “…would be as boring look at as it is to listen to.” Isherwood states that Chong failed to reproduce the same intensity as Kurosawa did in the adaptation of “Macbeth” Throughout his whole review of the play, Isherwood negatively comments from Chong leaving out Shakespeare to having a dull stage. He states “It essentially boils down to a lot of men charging back and forth across a mostly dark and bare stage in fancy samurai getups.” From this being said, he only liked one thing about the play and that was the costumes. I agree with Isherwood on the costumes because it was very eye catching and went well with the scenery. Overall, I thought that the play was confusing and failed to understand some parts of it.
http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/theater/reviews/12throne.html
