Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. Macbeth, with his wife Lady Macbeth, plots to become king. The plot of Macbeth contains disturbing ...

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English Touring Theatre’s dark, psychological Macbeth makes bold choices in dramaturgy and staging Nothing in this production of Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy, directed by Richard Twyman for English ...

Audiences have been spoiled for starry productions of Macbeth recently. Saoirse Ronan chose to make her London stage debut as Lady Macbeth in Yael Farber’s take on the Scottish play in 2021; Daniel ...

Is there a connection between ideological interpretations of Shakespeare and middling productions? Surveying the programme notes for the Globe’s latest Macbeth, one encounters an essay by Zoë Svendsen ...

“The Tragedy of Macbeth” is a template for a thoroughly modern take on Shakespeare as Denzel Washington excellently navigates a royal descent into madness but still gets upstaged by one fantastically ...

“You all right, darling?” drawls Macbeth before regaling his wife with the witches’ spooky prophecy via a voice note she plays on a phone. This reimagining of the Macbeths’ post-battle reunion gets ...