Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

David Morrissey plays the murderous king in Gemma Bodinetz's Liverpool Everyman production of Shakespeare's most visceral and menacing play.

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GEMMA BODINETZ (Director) Read More

Theatre credits include: Caravan and A Buyer's Market at the Bush Theatre; Yard Gal at the Royal Court and MCC New York; Breath, Boom at the Royal Court; Hamlet, Bristol Old Vic; Luminosity, Royal Shakespeare Company; Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead and Four Nights in Knaresborough at the West Yorkshire Playhouse; Paper Husband, Chimps, English Journeys, Snake and After the Gods at the Hampstead Theatre; Shopping and F*cking, at the New York Theatre Workshop; Closer to Heaven, West End;  and Guiding Star, Liverpool Everyman/National Theatre.

FRANCIS O'CONNER (Designer) Read More

Theatre includes: Enlightenment, at the Hampstead; Crash, West Yorkshire Playhouse; The Secret Garden, Edinburgh Festival Theatre and Toronto; The Silver Tassie, Druid Theatre, Galway; Fried Rice Paradise and Much Ado About Nothing, Singapore; Death of a Salesman, West Yorkshire Playhouse; Everyone, Edinburgh Lyceum; The Elves and the Shoemakers, Dundee; Equivocation, Manhatten Theatre Club; Peter Pan, Guignol and The Horse Marines, Drum, Plymouth; The Pros, the Cons and a Screw, Derby; Afterplay, Gate, Dublin; Two Men of Florence, Boston, USA; The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Love's Labour's Lost, Royal Shakespeare Company; Life x3, Newbury; Simply Cinderella, Curve Leicester; Drowning on Dry Land, Salisbury; The Deep Blue Sea, tour and West End;  Six Characters in Search of an Author, National Theatre of Scotland; Moonlight and Magnolias, Tricycle, London and Translations, Princeton and New York. For Galway's Druid Theatre designs include: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, also London and Broadway; The Lonesome West, also Broadway; My Beautiful Divorce, also London with Dawn French; the complete Synge plays, Galway, Dublin, Edinburgh, Lincoln Centre, New York; Long Day's Journey into Night and, more recently The Gigli Concert and The Cripple of Inishman, also Atlantic, New York. Other theatre includes: The Plough and the Stars and The House of Bernarda Alba, Abbey, Dublin; Andorra and A Raisin in the Sun, Young Vic;  Calico, Duke of York's'; The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Royal Shakespeare Company and Garrick; Peer Gynt, at the National. Opera includes: Luisa Miller, Buxton; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Garsington; Capriccio, Grange Park; Mirandolina, Ariadne and Don Pasquale, Garsington; Lucrezia Borgia and Roberto Devereux, Buxton; La fanciulla del West, The Magic Flute, Don Giovnanni, South Pacific and Iolanthe at Grange Park; Don Pasquale, in Geneva; La Traviata, ENO; Der Vogelhandler, Komische Berlin and Maometto II, Strasbourg. Other productions include: Pinocchio, Opera North, Germany and Minnesota; Manon, Opera North; How to Succeed in Business and Cole Porter's Out of This World, Chichester. Work in hand includes: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Gate Dublin; Il Turco in Italia, Garsington Opera; Maria di Rohan, Buxton Festival Opera; and Silent Night, a new opera for Minnesota Opera.

COLIN GRENFELL (Lighting Designer) Read More

Theatre includes: Canary, Liverpool Playhouse and UK tour; The Caretaker, Liverpool Everyman, Bath Theatre Royal and Trafalgar Studios; Unprotected, at the Liverpool Everyman; The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Edinburgh Lyceum; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; A Doll's House, The Elephant Man and Equus at the Dundee Rep; When the Rain Stops Falling and Through a Glass Darkly, Almeida; For Improbable: 70 Hill Lane, UK and US tours; Lifegame, UK tour, National Theatre and Jane Street Theatre, New York; The Hanging Man, West Yorkshire Playhouse, UK/US tour; Theatre of Blood, at the National Theatre; Panic, UK, US, and Sydney Opera House; The Theif of Baghdad, Royal Opera House; Riflemind, Trafalgar Studios; Black Watch, The Baccae, and 365, National Theatre of Scotland; Touched, Salisbury Playhouse; Single Spies, Bath Theatre Royal; Out of Time, Dublin Festival, Madrid; Playing the Victim and Casanova, Told by an Idiot and West Yorkshire Playhouse; Alex and 2Graves, Arts Theatre; Enjoy, Watford Palace Theatre; The Atheist, Theatre 503; The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb, tour; Seperate Tables and Kes at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester; tick, tick...BOOM! at the Menier Chocolate Factory; Kosher Harry and Body Talk, at the Royal Court; Heavenly, by Frantic Assembly; Missing Reel, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Crime and Punishment in Dalston and Silver Birch House at the Arcola. Opera inlcudes Fideliom, OTC Dublin; La Boheme, English Touring Opera; Falstaff for Mid-Wales Opera and Piccard in Space for the Southbank Centre.
 

FERGUS O'HARE (Sound Designer) Read More

Theatre includes: No Wise Men, Tartuffe, Our County's Good, The Electric Hills, Intemperance and Guiding Star at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse; In a Forest Dark and Deep at the Vaudeville; Tiger Country at the Hampstead; Translations/Molly Sweeney at the Curve Leicester; Novecento, Donmar Warehouse/Trafalgar; Red Bud at the Royal Court; Birdsong at the Comedy Theatre; Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind, The Tempest, Cloaca, The Philadelphia Story, Aladdin and The Entertainer, at the Old Vic; Twelfth Night, This Is How It Goes, Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Henry IV, Caligula, Merrily We Roll Along, Privates on Parade, Passion Play, The Vortex, Juno and the Paycock, Orpheus Descending, A Lie of the Mind, How I Learned to Drive and Electra (Drama Desk Nominee), Lobby Hero, Endgame, The Vortex, True West, Habeus Corpus, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Life of Stuff and Playland at the Donmar Warehouse; The Human Comedy,  In The Red and Brown Water, Skellig and Pictures From an Exhibition at the Young Vic; The Crucible, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Tempest for Regent's Park; Julius Caesar, King Lear, Volpone, Cordelia Dream, I'll Be the Devil and The Seagull, RSC; Noises Off, Translations, Guiding Star, The Merchant of Venice, The Black Album and Money at the National Theatre; This is Our Youth, Up for Grabs, Rain Man, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and Fat Pig for the West End.

PETER COYTE (Composer) Read More

Theatre credits include: No Wise Men at the Liverpool Playhouse and Peepolykus; Spyski and All in the Timing, Peepolukus; Throat, Philomena's Feast, Night and Day/Spike Islands, Rope, Loser and Drowing Not Waving, Company FZ and John Paul Zaccarini. Film includes: Sea Point Days, The Mother's House and When the War is Over; Fun and John Aldus-the Spirit of the Place. Dance credits include work with Dora Frankel Dance Conpany, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, Gravity and Levity, Susan Lewis, Kirsty Little and The Wrong Size.

BRETT YOUNG (Fight Director) Read More

Theatre includes: Faust, Our Country's Good, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Chimps, Dead Heavy Fantastic, The Caretaker, Lost Monsters and Ten Tiny Toes, at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse; Wastwater, Posh and Free Outgoing at the Royal Court Downstairs; The Knot of the Heart, House of Games, and Ruined at the Almeida; Clybourne Park, Royal Court Downstairs and Wyndhams Theatre; Men Should Weep at the National Theatre; Faith and Cold Reading and Inheritance, Live Theatre, Newcastle; Bedroom Farce, National Tour; Eigengrau, Like a Fishbone and The Knowledge, Bush Theatre; Shraddha, Piranha Heights and This isn't Romance at the Soho Theatre; The Usual Auntijies, Too Much Pressure and Babylone, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry; The Graft, Two Women, Bad Blood Blues and Family Man, Theatre Royal Stratford East; Remembrance Day, Our Private Life, Redbud, Spur of the Moment and Disconnect, Royal Court Upstairs; The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Curve Leicester; The Caretaker, Liverpool Everyman and Trafalgar Studios; Category B, and The Great Game: Broken Glass at the Tricycle; Annie Get Your Gun at the Young Vic; The Fastest Clock in the Universe at the Hampstead; The House of Special Purpose, Chichester Festival Theatre; The Harder They Come, Playhouse Theatre, Barbican London and Toronto; Wuthering Heights, Birmingham Rep and The Lover/The Collection, at the Comedy Theatre.Film and television credits include: Troy, The New Girl, Shades of Beige, Against All Odds and Blue Peter.

TESS DIGNAN (Voice Coach) Read More

Currently Head of Voice at Rose Bruford College and has been a guest voice coach at The Royal Shakespeare Company since 2004 on RSC Productions such as; Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Women Beware Women, and Twelfth Night. She has also worked at the Stratford Shakespeare Company in Stratford Canada as Associate Voice Coach on productions such as: Macbeth, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, West Side Story and Pride and Prejudice. She worked last year on the National Theatre of Scotland's new International Festival production of Caledonia. She has also worked with the Really Useful Theatre Company, the Oxford Stage Company and independent producers on many West End productions at the Soho, the Gielgud, the Strand, the Albery, the Apollo and the Barbican. As well as teaching at RADA, LAMDA and CSSD, she has also taught masterclasses at the Moscow Arts Theatre School, in Moscow, the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico in Spain and the Stratford Ontario Acting Conservatory in Stratford, Ontario Canada. Currently her students at Rose Bruford College have won the Carleton Hobbs Radio Drama Prize six out of the past eight years, including 2011.

JACQUIE DAVIS (Costume Supervisor) Read More

Theatre credits include: Dead Heavy Fantastic, Sleeping Beauty, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Anthology, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Dick Whittington, The Caretaker, Lost Monsters, Billy Wonderful, Mother Goose, Endgame, Eric's Intemperance, The Way Home, The Morris and Port Authority at the Liverpool Everyman; Oedipus, Canary, Ghost Stories, The Hypochondriac, The Price, Our Country's Good, Tartuffe and Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi at the Liverpool Playhouse; Vurt, Wise Guys, Unsuitable Girls and Perfect at the Contact Theatre, Manchester; Oleanna and Memory for Clwyd Theatr Cymru; Love on the Dole at the Lowry, Manchester; Never the Sinner at Library Theatre Manchester and Shockheaded Peter in West End.

KAY MAGSON (Casting Director) Read More

Theatre credits include: Dead Heavy Fantastic, Liverpool Everyman; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Anthology, Liverpool Everyman and Slung Low; The Solid Gold Cadillac at the Garrick; Dangerous Corner, West Yorkshire Playhouse and the West End;  Round the Horne...Revisited and Dracula, National tours; Singin in the Rain, West Yorkshire Playhouse, National Theatre and National Tour; Aspects of Love, All the Dun of the Fair and The Witches of Eastwick, National Tours; Kes, Liverpool Playhouse and National Tour; Great Expectations, English Touring Theatre, Watford, National Tour and Sweeney Todd, Royal Festival Hall.  Kay was resident at the West Yorkshire playhouse for 17 years where she cast many show including; Hamlet, the McKellen ensemble season, the Patrick Stewart Priestley season and many others, and also casts regularly for Salisbury Playhouse, Northampton Theatres (including Young America at the NT), Hull Truck and the Manchester Library Theatre. She has just completed casting on Walk Like a Panther, a pilot TV for Finite Films.

Kay is a member of the Casting Directors Guild.

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