The Latest Breaking News from Macbeth

Actor will star in production at the Donmar Warehouse

The actor will take to the stage as the Scottish king in December, in the last production of the London theatre’s 30th-anniversary season

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The show will be performed in a warehouse in four cities

The production, directed by Simon Godwin, will open in Liverpool before heading to Edinburgh, London and Washington DC

He will be reunited with Indira Varma, who will play Lady Macbeth.

The first recorded use of the stone was in 1057, when Macbeth’s stepson Lulach was proclaimed king

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It has been 400 years since the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, a volume now known as the First Folio. Prepared by his fellow actors after his death, the book presented 36 plays divided into the genres of comedy, history and tragedy.

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