Macbeth

Mother, Maiden and Crone

Mother, Maiden and Crone

★★★★★ Filthy and Gorgeous

Mother, Maiden and Crone is Ewan Burns’ writing debut and premieres at theSpace @ Niddry St, led by a strong team of homegrown emerging talents, drag and otherwise.

Aug 17 2025 | By More
Panto Macbeth

Panto Macbeth

★★★★★ Perfectly absurd

It’s panto. It’s Macbeth. It’s Panto Macbeth. What more do you want? The Mermaids Performing Arts Fund of St. Andrews University hurl a fifty-minute pantomime version of Shakespeare’s tragedy of Macbeth onto the Fringe stage, like a vulgar No-Fear Shakespeare crossed with traditional panto bits.

Aug 21 2024 | By | Reply More
Macbeth & Dunsinane

Macbeth & Dunsinane

Macbeth: ★★★☆☆ Speedy
Dunsinane: ★★★★☆ Bloody

A Necessary Cat have done it again – bringing a powerful double helping of a Shakespeare starter and Shakespeare-adjacent main course to the Fringe in which the whole is better the sum of its parts.

Aug 14 2024 | By | Reply More
Macbeth: Sleep No More

Macbeth: Sleep No More

★★★☆☆ Well Spoken

Reducing Shakespeare’s cast of forty-plus characters to a company of four female performers, Shadow Road Productions brings Macbeth: Sleep No More back to the Fringe in an adaptation that encapsulates the essence of the Scottish Play.

Aug 7 2024 | By | Reply More
Shakespeare adjacent pairings

Shakespeare adjacent pairings

It’s the Bard, Bill, just not as you know him

Following Necessary Cat’s brilliant pairing of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Fringe of 2023, the Edinburgh-based company is back with Macbeth and David Greig’s Dunsinane.

Aug 5 2024 | By | Reply More
Macbeth (an undoing)

Macbeth (an undoing)

★★★★☆ Compelling

Zinnie Harris’s much-garlanded adaptation of Shakespeare, Macbeth (an undoing), returns to the Lyceum subtly tweaked and all the better for it.

May 15 2024 | By | Reply More
Drama Desk nods for Harris’ Macbeth update

Drama Desk nods for Harris’ Macbeth update

Four Drama Desk Award noms for Macbeth (an undoing)

Macbeth (an undoing) returns to the Lyceum on Tuesday 14 May 2024 after a successful international tour in which it picked up four nominations from the prestigious Drama Desk Awards from the New York critics.

Apr 30 2024 | By | Reply More
Strange Town actor for West End Macbeth

Strange Town actor for West End Macbeth

David Tennant’s hit Macbeth transfers to Harold Pinter theatre

Edinburgh’s Strange Town theatre company and young acting agency has another West End star in its books as Raffi Phillips joins his fellow cast members in the transfer of the Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth to the Harold Pinter theatre.

Apr 25 2024 | By | Reply More
Macbeth

Macbeth

★★★★☆    High impact

There’s plenty to mull over in the high concept, high impact, high-everything modern dress production of Macbeth touring to a quartet of created theatre spaces – and this month spending a fortnight at the Royal Highland Centre.

Jan 18 2024 | By | 1 Reply More
Macbeth booking goes live

Macbeth booking goes live

Venues revealed and ticket sales go live for warehouse Macbeth

The venue for the site-specific warehouse Macbeth coming to Edinburgh in January 2024 has been revealed as the Royal Highland Centre as tickets go on sale today, Thursday 22 June, from 1pm.

Jun 22 2023 | By | Reply More
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