It’s a Bard! It’s a Thane! It’s Super Mac! What is this peculiar draw that Macbeth has on actors, particularly those from TV or films who yearn to refresh their stage roots? Among those who ...

"Noticing the play's obsession with time, and the way it stops for the Macbeths after they have slaughtered Duncan, Findlay sets centre stage a red-faced digital clock that counts down from that ...

Indeed, death looms over everything here, and weighs increasingly heavily on this childless couple. This “Macbeth” brings war, post-traumatic stress disorder and grief to the fore in a more ...

As played by Michael Fassbender, this Macbeth isn’t defined by ambition, by what he wants, but by what he’s lost — the death of his children is the spark that sets him on his bloody path ...

The Tragedy of Macbeth finds the titular general and his loyal wife older and warier, desperately striving against a merciless ticking clock as they attempt to seize upon a final opportunity for ...

is the spark to the incendiary kindling the witches light under Macbeth. Having survived the death of her only child, she’s channeled her fury and unbearable sorrow into an unslakable thirst for ...

By setting the film around the Macbeth couple in their 60s, Coen and McDormand said it adds a “ticking-clock” element to the story and reconfigures the drama as a thriller movie.

In the 2023 production of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” at the Donmar Warehouse ... A Londoner in mourning over the death of his pro-Brexit father. A Black working-class man in crisis as his ...