Macbeth

“BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOOD”

After a smash-hit season and tour in 2025, our new production of Macbeth directed by George Banders returns in 2026, a treat for teachers and students alike.

An unexpected prophecy at the close of a devastating war sends a national hero and his brilliant wife on a feverish and murderous quest for absolute power. With startlingly beautiful language, Shakespeare’s revered tragedy tears open the thin fabric between the temporal and magical worlds. This muscular, contemporary, fever-dream of a production looks at today’s world through Macbeth’s eyes – an epoch where double speak is rife, where violence is a modern ecstasy and true loyalty is our most valuable commodity.

Shakespeare combines Scottish and English history with Greek myth to one simple end – to capture what it is to be human. What happens to us when we sacrifice our humanity to get ahead? We live in such a time, an unprecedented era that idolises fame and celebrity above leadership and morality. In such a time and place, perhaps even nature begins to fight back.

A boldly imaginative, fully contemporary production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth from Sport for Jove that is true to the text and full of engaging revelations. A fantastic introduction of Shakespeare for young people.

Image credit: Dowling and Dowling Designs