Macbeth film director Justin Kurzel takes us behind the scenes and on set of his new film starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. ... “This is the battle scene at the beginning.

A brief screen of text at the start sets the stage for the story, and replaces some information from missing scenes. It tells us how General MacBeth (Fassbender), Thane of Glamis, leads the army of ...

The play opens with a battle scene – one of several thrilling fight scenes designed by Robert Walsh – that clearly positions Macbeth as a fierce warrior who has proven his mettle and merit to ...

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo deliver a 'Macbeth' for the ages, but the curse of Shakespeare's tragedy ... sexual mind games, regicide, demonic communication, foul murders and fearsome battle scenes.

7: Preparing for battle. Night in Dunsinane Castle. Lady Macbeth's servant has summoned a doctor to witness her mistress sleep-walking. It is clear that Lady Macbeth is deeply troubled.

Lady Roscille is a foreign 17-year-old girl rumored to have eyes that enchant men to their graves. Sent to Glammis to marry Macbeth, the brute warlord with a past of dabbling in the dark arts, it ...

And what to make of the feast scene? Traditionally the point where Macbeth’s grip on sanity starts to fray as he’s confronted by the spectre of his pal Banquo – who he’s just had murdered ...

What does guilt and ambition look like on stage? In Herndon High School’s gripping post-apocalyptic take on Macbeth, they are brought to life with artistry, precision and intensity.

But Lady Macbeth’s final scene, raging against misogynist storylines, feels awkward and too explicit, as if she were delivering her own footnotes. We lose sight of the desolate depths of the ...

The murders are horrific but the cauldron scene is played for gruesome laughs. Houghton’s wrenching depiction of Lady Macbeth’s madness is bracketed by two comic caricatures.