The Stage

Goold’s Macbeth confirmed for West End

Published Friday 17 August 2007 at 13:20 by Lalayn Baluch

Full details of the West End transfer of Rupert Goold’s Chichester Festival production of Macbeth have been announced.

The show, with Patrick Stewart in the title role and Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth, will run at the Gielgud Theatre for a ten-week season from September 21 until December 1.

The cast will also include Paul Shelley as Duncan, Scott Handy as Malcolm, and Ben Carpenter as Donalbain. Also in the company is Martin Turner as Banquo, and Michael Feast as Macduff. The witches will be played by Polly Frame, Niamh McGrady and Sophie Hunter.

Macbeth is currently sold out at the Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre, where the show’s cast are also performing Twelfth Night in repertory until September 1.

Goold previously directed Stewart in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest in Stratford, last year, and at the Novello Theatre this February year. Stewart also played the lead in the RSC’s Antony and Cleopatra at the same two theatres.

Meanwhile, Fleetwood has played Rosaline in Trevor Nunn’s National Theatre production of Love’s Labour Lost, Hermione in Dominic Cooke’s The Winter’s Tale for the RSC, and Polyxena in Jonathan Kent’s Phaedra at the Donmar Warehouse.