Macbeth

Re-imagined for everyone aged six and over

3 - 31 July 2010

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Steve Marmion

A spellbinding concoction of witches, battles, ghosts and murder, Macbeth continues our programme of Shakespeare plays re-imagined for family audiences. 

Three witches foretell that Macbeth will be crowned King.  Driven by ambition and encouraged by his ruthless wife, he secretly assassinates the current monarch to realise the prophecy.  However, as Macbeth claims the throne, he is haunted by the demons of his past and his fate is set.

Condensed, yet still using original language and text, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays with young people.

Having worked at the RSC, Steve Marmion has gone on to direct Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness for Headlong and Jack and the Beanstalk at the Lyric Hammersmith.  He recently transferred Rupert Goold’s highly successful production of Macbeth onto Broadway.