Shakespeare’s striking tale of love, murder and ambition takes the stage this weekend at the Davenport-Pierson Auditorium.

By CAROLYN BROWN Staff Writer By the pricking of my thumbs, “Macbeth” to Franklin County comes! Montague Shakespeare Festival ...

Some of the important themes in Macbeth are: Fate - the idea that life’s journey is already mapped out, and that this journey cannot be changed. Appearance and reality - the way that people can ...

Lady Macbeth uses different methods to persuade Macbeth to change his mind. Which one really affected Macbeth? She says it was his idea first. This is her opening line - simply pointing out he ...

English Touring Theatre boss Richard Twyman is a hugely experienced director of Shakespeare, so it’s beyond me how he came to create this atrocious Macbeth. My current theory is that he may have ...

Photograph of Jack Carter (Macbeth), Kenneth Renwick (Second Murderer) and George Nixon (First Murderer) in the Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth at the Lafayette Theatre, Harlem.

That tension between control and inevitability is what drives ‘Hail Macbeth,’ making players complicit in a story they can’t change.” Sacerdoti, who directed Italy’s first large-scale ...