Macbeth (an undoing)

Tour synopsis, cast & creatives

‘Come, you spirits - That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood' This story will be told, the way it has always been told. What use is it otherwise? The hags on the heath. The woman who went mad. The man who became a tyrant. When her husband returns victorious from the battlefield with a prophecy that he is to become King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth will stop at nothing to make their darkest ambitions a reality. So far, so familiar. But then the story fragments...

Cast/Performers

Adam Best (Macbeth), Emmanuella Cole (Lady Macduff / Mae), Nicole Cooper (Lady Macbeth), Liz Kettle (Carlin), Thierry Mabonga (Macduff / Doc), Marc Mackinnon (Duncan / Murderer 2), Taqi Nazeer (Bloody Soldier / Lennox), Star Penders (Missy / Malcolm), James Robinson (Banquo), Laurie Scott (Ross / Murderer 1)

Creatives/Company

Author: Zinnie Harris (after William Shakespeare)
Producer(s): Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Hannah Roberts
Director(s): Zinnie Harris, Emily Jane Boyle (movement), Kaitlin Howard (fight / intimacy), Simone Pereira Hind (CDG - casting), Anna Dawson (casting)
Design: Tom Piper
Costume: Alex Berry
Lighting: Lizzie Powell
Sound: Pippa Murphy (and additional composition)
Music: Oguz Kaplangi
Dramaturg: Frances Poet