NT Live: Macbeth (Encore)

Director: Rufus Norris

2018, 150 min, with an intermission

Screenwriter: Play by William Shakespeare

Cast: Rory Kinnear, Anne-Marie Du, Kevin Harvey, Patrick O’Kane, Amaka Okafor.

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A dark reaction of the magic in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth was inspired by a time when Scottish chieftains battled for power, witches roamed the countryside, and prophecies very often came true. Updated to the aftermath of a civil war, the ambitious Macbeth (Rory Kinnear, who won an Olivier Award for Best Actor in National Theatre’s Othello) makes a grab for the crown, urged on by the murderous Lady Macbeth (Anne-Marie Du of Suragette). First staged in 1606, Shakespeare’s most terrifying play illuminates the timeless human cycle of cruelty and remorse.

“As Lady Macbeth, Du captures all the pathos of the character’s growing exclusion from her husband’s tyrannical world.’ – Michael Billington, The Guardian.