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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Fisher

Crown of Blood review – Macbeth’s deadly hurly-burly rooted in mythic Yoruba landscape

Kehinde Bankole as Oyebisi and Deyemi Okanlawon as Aderemi in Crown of Blood.
Eternal struggle … Kehinde Bankole as Oyebisi and Deyemi Okanlawon as Aderemi in Crown of Blood. Photograph: Robling Photography

Every time the court historian turns up, he has a new list of phenomena to report. Arokin (Toyin Oshinaike) brings news of a flying elephant, a gorilla with a tortoise shell and a woman with vipers for hair.

There has been a lot of this since Aderemi (Deyemi Okanlawon) returned from the battlefield and heard his wife’s prophetic dream. Telling her husband she saw a crown placed upon his head, Oyebisi (Kehinde Bankole) sets him on a course from warrior to despot.

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