Toil and trouble don’t simply bubble in the Old Globe’s bracing new staging of “Macbeth”: They detonate like a succession of grenades. Even the words of the play’s famous witches come out damaged and ...

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Why is Macbeth (Michael Fassbender) so ambitious? And why is his wife (Marion Cotillard) so mean? Didn't Shakespeare ever hear of back stories? Justin Kurzel ("The Snowtown Murders"), director of the ...

Unable to shake the thought, Macbeth tells his wife, Lady Macbeth. Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, posterity and ...

3 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists Macbeth was first performed in the early 1600’s, yet it tells a timeless story of blind ambition spurred by treachery, violence and madness. Macbeth ...

NARRATOR: In the castle Macbeth is put into his armour… FX: Clink of armour. MACBETH: You - tell my lady I am about to leave for battle. BODYGUARD: Yes, my lord. MACBETH: Are the flags flying?

THERE'S a reason guests on Desert Island Discs are offered The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare alongside their choice of a record and a luxury item – and it's not because three of the plays ...

On this day in 1057, Macbeth, or Mac Bethad mac Findlaích as he was known, died in battle after an English invasion of Scotland. It is hard to think of any historic king with a worse reputation than ...

Considered to be one of the last Gaelic kings, the real Macbeth MacFindlaech wasn’t the murderous, terrible character of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. In reality, Macbeth became Earl ...

Costumes and props including jewellery, daggers and armour from the film Macbeth which opened in cinemas across the UK last week are being exhibited at four locations across Moray. Did you know with a ...