He’s the warrior who murders his way to the Scottish throne and onward through a continued killing spree to his own demise. But he’s also the ruthless climber of a wife whose scheming drives the ...

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is the story of one man’s excessive ambition; in Heiner Mí¼ller’s version, written in East Berlin in 1971, a whole social class is callously indifferent to human life. There are ...

The Old Globe’s production, on the outdoor festival stage, has no answer. Jonathan Cake’s high-pitched, over-e-NUN-ciating Macbeth comes off as a skittish Hamlet impersonator rather than the vile Scot ...

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. In the beginning, Macbeth is manipulated by his wife, Lady Macbeth, who encourages his ambition and ...

Macbeth claims that Duncan's sons flee Scotland "filling their hearers with strange invention". But Michael Boyd's production, the first new show in this beautifully revamped theatre, has plenty of ...