Macbeth

A dark stage scene shows a person in profile on the right side of the frame, holding a short dagger upright in one hand. To the left, a wooden candle stand holds multiple lit candles arranged at different heights, their flames glowing against the black background. The scene is dramatically lit, with the candles providing most of the illumination and the surrounding space fading into darkness.

What would you destroy to get what you want?

A dagger. A crown. The original text.

One musician. Ten storytellers. Fifty candles. Ninety breathless minutes.

Step into the shadows. Let the scorpions in your mind strike. Watch a world turn inside-out beneath a tyrant’s rule.

Ben Crystal returns to Shakespeare North with a fast, spooky, blood-spattered staging of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous works: The Tragedie of Macbeth—ambition-driven, greed-flecked, grief-filled, revenge-fuelled, ghost-haunted… and absolutely cursed.

Something very wicked this way comes.

Event Date: Friday 11th September 2026 - Saturday 3rd October 2026

Location: Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prospero Place, Prescot L34 3AB

Categories: 2026 | Theatre & Performance

Contact Details: Shakespeare North Playhouse

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