David Tennant enthralls in this unsettling tale of love and murder that drips with tension, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London.
Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo
Theater

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma ignite Shakespeare's tragedy in this blistering production, live-captured at London's Dock X. Designer Frankie Bradshaw's industrial wasteland, with scorched tanks and roaring jets, transforms the stage into the fractured terrain of Macbeth's mind. Fiennes embodies the thane as a war hero eroded by prophecy, while Varma's Lady Macbeth hones maternity into a blade. Simon Godwin's prowling cameras follow their unraveling in real time: the whispered plots, bloodied hands, and the crushing weight of stolen power. When ambition bleeds into paranoia, what's left but the knife in your hand? Shakespeare's most harrowing tragedy lands as a battlefield dispatch for an age of broken trust.
“Ralph Fiennes delivers a searing, deeply physical performance as Macbeth, opposite Indira Varma's steely, manipulative Lady Macbeth, their electric chemistry anchoring the entire tragedy. Director Simon Godwin reinvents the play as a modern military thriller, focusing on the psychological toll of unchecked ambition and giving the text a palpable, fast-paced urgency.”
— Marquee TV Content Curator