The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness.  Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris, sees Rory Kinnear  and Anne-Marie Duff return to the National Theatre to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

National Theatre Live: Macbeth

An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tensions boil over. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in the eye of the storm.