Location: Shakespeares Globe Theatre Type of production: Play Opened: 23 April 2010

Booking until: 27 June 2010

Running time: TBA

Author/Playwright: William Shakespeare



Synopsis:

When three witches tell the general Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man to stand in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his position, Macbeth must keep on killing – at first Banquo, his old comrade-in-arms; and later, as the atmosphere of guilt and paranoia thickens, anyone who seems a threat to the tyrant and his fear.

From its first moments to the last fulfilment of the witches' prophecy, Shakespeare's gripping account of the psychological experience of murder enthralls the imagination. In scenes of nightmarish vividness and language of haunting power, Macbeth represents the profoundest engagement with the forces of evil in all drama.

PLEASE NOTE: We have been told that this production will be particularly Dark and Bloody!!! We have been asked to advise customers who are bring children that: We do not set age limits on the productions because we feel that the individual parents or guardian knows best what their children can cope with. However, we have been told by the director that this will be a gruesome production of a brutal play, which more sensitive children may find distressing.