In The Tragedy of Macbeth, Hunter takes on a role usually played by multiple women: the witches. The witches serve as the catalyst of Macbeth’s great tragedy. They appear to Macbeth (Washington ...

Denzel Washington plays the murderous thane, while Frances McDormand portrays his bloodthirsty, sleepwalking wife, hellbent on Macbeth becoming King of Scotland. Hunter’s witches, or “the ...

Analysis The Witches have conjured up three ghostly visions that make ambiguous predictions. Macbeth is told that he need not fear anything ('take no care who chafes, who frets, or where ...

Coen cleverly directs his “Macbeth” like a crime thriller with horror show elements. Take the three witches, all played by Kathryn Hunter, in a brilliant, body-contorted tour de force that ...

A Manual Cinema show is hard to explain. It’s performed live, but it’s not quite a theater piece. It’s puppetry but not in ...

That became one of our touchstone images. There is also a scene where Macbeth meets the witches and the room fills with water. Can you talk about that? It’s meant to be a big cauldron.

Macbeth, a well-respected Scottish general, receives a prediction from three witches that he will become king. With the support of his plotting, avaricious wife, Lady Macbeth, he rises to power ...

The four-time Oscar nominee makes her London stage debut, alongside James McArdle, in director Yaël Farber’s fresh take on the Scottish play. By Demetrios Matheou It speaks volumes for Saoirse ...

The three witches who deliver punning prophecies to Macbeth (Ralph Fiennes) have been reconceived as people displaced by war. They wear scuffed sneakers, denim jackets and overalls (Frankie ...