Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a Scottish nobleman called Macbeth. At the start of the play, Banquo is Macbeth’s friend and is also a general in King Duncan’s army.

Choosing the right opener for a theatrical season is always a fraught gamble. An opening demands ambition and momentum, all while securing trust in the audience that what follows will reward them.

Funny how fate goes. You can miss immortality by a hair. Maybe that already happened to you, sucker. Consider. Had it been Lord Banquo who personally encountered the treacherous Macdonwald on the ...

In Act 3, scene 4, Macbeth causes chaos at a celebratory banquet at his castle when he suddenly starts to behave very oddly indeed. Everything starts quite normally. The guests are greeted and they ...

No matter how much they revise, students can never predict what’s going to be on an exam paper despite discussions around what is “unlikely” or “likely” to come up. And that’s exactly what happened ...