Macbeth: Royal Shakespeare Company

Showings

Mary D. Fisher Theatre Sun, May 20, 2018 4:00 PM
Film Info
Event Type:Royal Shakespeare Company
Run Time:2 hours, 30 minutes (including intermission)
Trailer:https://youtu.be/AyuqHvzQx90

Description

“Something wicked this way comes.”

Returning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the path to murder.

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s contemporary production of Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of Niamh Cusack to the Company.

“Urgent and wonderfully sinister.” — Evening Standard

“Christopher Eccleston is an engaging, restless, commanding Macbeth. Niamh Cusack’s Lady Macbeth crackles with pain and frustration. They make a gripping central couple.” — The Stage

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is one of the world’s best-known theatre ensembles. The Company focuses on works by Shakespeare, other renaissance dramatists and contemporary writers. The RSC is dedicated to attracting and inspiring the best artists both on stage and behind the scenes, to produce performances of the very highest standard. So, wherever you experience the RSC, you experience work that is made in Shakespeare’s home town.

Shakespeare has been performed and celebrated in Stratford for centuries and the RSC has trained generations of the very best theatre makers since the Company was founded in 1961.  The Royal Shakespeare Company pioneers contemporary approaches to Shakespeare’s plays, as well as staging the work of those who inspired him and the work of today’s playwrights.