National Theatre Live: Macbeth

May 2, 2024

2h 34m

★ 8.0

Overview

Blood will have blood. Unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murderous desires reign supreme in Shakespeare's most poetic examination of evil. When three witches tell Macbeth that he will become King of Scotland, he plots with his wife to attain the title through an assassination; a bloody act that gives him his crown and sends him careening down the path of his own undoing.

Genres

Drama

National Theatre Live: Macbeth Trailers

Cast

Macbeth

Ralph Fiennes

Lady Macbeth

Indira Varma

Ross

Ben Allen

Malcolm

Ewan Black

Angus

Levi Brown

Seyton

Jonathan Case

Third Witch

Lola Shalam

First Witch

Lucy Mangan

Second Witch

Danielle Fiamanya

Lennox

Richard Pepper

Second Murderer

Michael Hodgson

King Duncan/Siward

Keith Fleming

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