Macbeth
Thrice
★★★☆☆ Intense
Thrice, stopping at the Traverse at the end of a short Scottish tour for two performances only, presents nine witches (three times three) in the aftermath of Macbeth
Mother, Maiden and Crone
★★★★★ Queer excellence
An homage to the Edinburgh queer scene, Mother, Maiden and Crone, playing at Bedlam Theatre all Fringe, turns Macbeth into an uproarious farcical comedy about a hen do gone wrong at a struggling gay bar.
Macbeth: Blood and Bluegrass
★★★★☆ Invigorating
Kiwi outfit The Barden Party return to the Fringe with their foot-stomping, heart-pounding musical rendition of Macbeth at Surgeons’ Hall in preparation for what is bound to be a triumphant tour of Scotland.
Mother, Maiden and Crone
★★★★★ Filthy and Gorgeous
Mother, Maiden and Crone is Ewan Burns’ writing debut and premieres at theSpace @ Niddry St, led by a strong team of homegrown emerging talents, drag and otherwise.
Panto Macbeth
★★★★★ Perfectly absurd
It’s panto. It’s Macbeth. It’s Panto Macbeth. What more do you want? The Mermaids Performing Arts Fund of St. Andrews University hurl a fifty-minute pantomime version of Shakespeare’s tragedy of Macbeth onto the Fringe stage, like a vulgar No-Fear Shakespeare crossed with traditional panto bits.
Macbeth & Dunsinane
Macbeth: ★★★☆☆ Speedy
Dunsinane: ★★★★☆ Bloody
A Necessary Cat have done it again – bringing a powerful double helping of a Shakespeare starter and Shakespeare-adjacent main course to the Fringe in which the whole is better the sum of its parts.
Macbeth: Sleep No More
★★★☆☆ Well Spoken
Reducing Shakespeare’s cast of forty-plus characters to a company of four female performers, Shadow Road Productions brings Macbeth: Sleep No More back to the Fringe in an adaptation that encapsulates the essence of the Scottish Play.
Shakespeare adjacent pairings
It’s the Bard, Bill, just not as you know him
Following Necessary Cat’s brilliant pairing of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Fringe of 2023, the Edinburgh-based company is back with Macbeth and David Greig’s Dunsinane.
Macbeth (an undoing)
★★★★☆ Compelling
Zinnie Harris’s much-garlanded adaptation of Shakespeare, Macbeth (an undoing), returns to the Lyceum subtly tweaked and all the better for it.
Drama Desk nods for Harris’ Macbeth update
Four Drama Desk Award noms for Macbeth (an undoing)
Macbeth (an undoing) returns to the Lyceum on Tuesday 14 May 2024 after a successful international tour in which it picked up four nominations from the prestigious Drama Desk Awards from the New York critics.
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