Following their acclaimed collaboration on Medea at the National Theatre, Carrie Cracknell and Lucy Guerin create a new version of Shakespeare’s supernatural tragedy.

When the prophecy of three witches proclaims that Macbeth is destined to become the King of Scotland, he and Lady Macbeth embark upon a murderous journey of power, treachery, paranoia, betrayal and suicide.

Beginning with Shakespeare’s text, the powerful and unsettling choreography in Carrie Cracknell and Lucy Guerin’s production weaves its way throughout the story, culminating in an unforgettable final act where words falter and finally give way.

John Heffernan is a prolific theatre actor whose credits include Oppenheimer (RSC/West End); Edward II, She Stoops to Conquer, Emperor and Galilean, After the Dance, The Habit of Art, (National); King Lear, The Seagull, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet (RSC). He can currently be seen on screen in Dickensian and Luther (BBC) and other previous television credits include Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and Ripper Street.

Anna Maxwell Martin plays Lady Macbeth. Anna was recently seen on screen in the BBC’s And Then There Were None and her other television credits include Death Comes to Pemberley and Poppy Shakespeare, for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress. Her film work includes: Philomena, Becoming Jane and The Hours and her theatre credits include: Di and Viv and Rose (Hampstead); Measure for Measure (Almeida); The Female Species (Vaudeville); Cabaret (Lyric); The Entertainer, Dumb Show (Royal Court); His Dark Materials, Honour, Three Sisters, The Coast of Utopia (National Theatre) and The Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse).

John and Anna will be joined by both dancers and actors including: Mark Ebulue, Thomasin Gulgeç, Ira Siobhan Mandela, Ana Beatriz Meireles, Prasanna Puwanarajah and Clemmie Sveaas.