Macbeth's wicked women : sexualized evil in Geoffrey Wright's Macbeth

Geoffrey Wright's ambitious re-imagining of Macbeth transposes Shakespeare's 1606 Scottish play to the warring criminal underworld of contemporary Melbourne, Australia. One might expect a cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare produced and set in the twenty-first century to reflect a contemporary culture positively affected by an internalized feminist ideology; however, Wright's recent rendering of Macbeth would suggest otherwise.