As dusk fell over Highdown Gardens in Worthing, the tragic events of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth unfolded on an open-air ...

Banquo and Macbeth start as friends and fellow warriors, but the Witches’ predictions cause tension in their relationship. After the murder of King Duncan, Banquo becomes suspicious of Macbeth.

The witches serve as the catalyst of Macbeth’s great tragedy. They appear to Macbeth (Washington) and his friend Banquo (Bertie Carvel) after the two men successfully lead King Duncan’s army ...

They were open to suggestion, Banquo says. That’s when the witches showed up. Waller’s ability to conjure this twilight world of witches and war is stunning.

Early in Shakespeare’s "Macbeth," Lord Banquo asks the prophetic three witches, "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow, and which will not, speak then to me ...

The witches are thus active instruments in the fate that befalls Macbeth, ... Banquo will be made a ghost and Lady Macduff and her children will be slaughtered in their castle.

Denzel Washington takes on the title character in Joel Coen's Bard-based film, The Tragedy of Macbeth, with murder-minded Lady Macbeth played by Coen's wife, Frances McDormand.