Macbeth

“I should have put this in as a pick before, but you have until mid-January to catch Polly Findlay’s disturbingly creepy staging which stars Christopher Eccleston as a blunt warrior and Niamh Cusack as Lady M. What I really liked about this, when I saw it in Stratford in the summer, was the way it handles the supernatural element: the witches are played by small children in their PJs and woolly socks. The image may be benign, but the effect is like something out of a horror movie and it brilliantly underlines one of the themes of the play about childlessness, lineage, and the way the cycle of violence is transmitted from one generation to the next.”