Hedgrow Theatre Company continues its 2025 season with the presentation of I, Banquo, a solo show by award-winning ...

You will never again see the Scottish play interpreted this way. Intended to open on International Women’s Day, it found its ...

While, in a typical production, Banquo returns to haunt Macbeth as a spirit — an immaterial, spectral vision — Kearney’s staging has Banquo’s bloody corpse resurrected by the zombified ...

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is not original’ William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy that explores ambition and the corrupting influence of power. Written in the early 1600s, the play follows the rise ...

Traditionally the point where Macbeth’s grip on sanity starts to fray as he’s confronted by the spectre of his pal Banquo – who he’s just had murdered – here Austin’s Macbeth indulges ...

Gabriel Akuwudike impressed as Banquo. He seemed very composed and comfortable on stage. Covered in blood, pouring Macbeth a drink as a resurrected ghost, he provides one of the play’s standout ...

Will this Macbeth be a family drama ... members of the public to sit at his table before he’s haunted by a dead Banquo. Perhaps Twyman was trying his hand at toying with dissonance, but ...

One of the weird qualities of the Macbeth adaptations is that they tend to baulk at the final revelation that it is for Banquo’s descendants that he has sold his soul to the “common enemy”. As a ...

Elisabeth Stöppler’s new production of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf takes as its starting point the numbing ...

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo deliver a 'Macbeth' for the ages, but the curse of Shakespeare's tragedy isn't easy to avoid.