Shakespeare’s classic story of ambition and cruelty begins with Macbeth and Banquo returning victorious from battle. When they are hailed by three plotting witches, the temptations of power and possession of the Scottish throne are proffered. What follows is a bloody battle between guilt and ambition, man and country, and husband and wife.

Olivier Award-winner Simon Russell Beale is one of the UK’s leading Shakespearian actors and previously worked alongside director John Caird in the acclaimed production of Hamlet at the National Theatre.