Cast and Creatives Macbeth Close Porter Michael Abubakar Previous RSC includes: King John, The Whip Theatre includes: Three Sisters (Globe), Roots, The Tragedy of Macbeth (Almeida Theatre), Oresteia, Hamlet (Park Avenue Armory), The Glass Menagerie (Arcola Theatre/Watford Palace Theatre), The Whip Hand (Traverse Theatre Edinburgh), Cadaver Police in the Electrocution Afterlife (Tron Theatre), Invisible Army (Terra Incognita), Dream On (BBC Arts), Blood Lines (The Arches), Der Rosenkavalier (Scottish Opera House) Television includes: Bad Sisters, Crime, Annika, Grantchester, Motherland, News Crack, Horrible Histories, Doctors, Trust Me Film includes: Wonka, Artemis Fowl, Long Night at Blackstone Second Witch Eilidh Fisher This is Eilidh’s RSC debut Theatre whilst training includes: The Children’s Hour, The Merchant of Venice, After The Revolution, Birdbath, Picnic Television includes: Alice and Steve, Dope Girls, The Power, The English Game, The Nest Film includes: The Outrun Trained at: The American Academy of Dramatic Arts Duncan / Siward Gilly Gilchrist This is Gilly’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Communicado, The House With The Green Shutters, Hamlet (Almeida), Julius Caesar (Edinburgh Lyceum), Victory (Lyceum), Pressure (Lyceum Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre) Television and film includes: Comfort & Joy, Rob Roy, Shoot For The Sun, Taggart, Monarch Of The Glen, The Replacement, One Of Us, You Instead, Gladiator, Starred Up, Outlaw King, Karen Pirie, Rebus, Department Q, Coldwater Trained at: Scottish Circus School, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Macbeth Sam Heughan This is Sam’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Outlaying Islands (Royal Court and Traverse Theatre), Batman Live (Touring), King John (Oran Mor), Romeo and Juliet (Dundee Rep), The Vortex (Manchester Royal Exchange), Hamlet (Citizens Theatre), Macbeth (Royal Lyceum), The Talented Mr Ripley (Royal & Derngate), Plague Over England (Duchess Theatre), Knives in Hens (TAG Theatre), The Twits (Citizens Theatre), Amphibians (Bridewell Theatre) Film includes: Love Again, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Bloodshot, SAS: Red Notice, To Olivia, When the Starlight Ends, Emulsion, A Princess for Christmas Television includes: Outlander, The Couple Next Door, Suspect, Doctors, Breaking The Mould, Any Human Heart, First Light, Rebus, A Very British Sex Scandal, Party Animals, Midsomer Murders, The Wild West, River City, Island at War Trained at: Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Banquo Nicholas Karimi Previous RSC includes: Henry VI Parts 2 and 3, The Comedy of Errors Theatre includes: View From The Bridge (Tron Theatre), So Young (Traverse Theatre), Arabian Nights (Bristol Old Vic), Adventures with the Painted People (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), The Twilight Zone (West End), A View from the Bridge (Theatre Royal York and Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton), Macbeth, An Oak Tree, Everyman, War Horse (National Theatre and West End), A Tale of Two Cities, Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Arabian Nights (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), The Kite Runner (West End, Nottingham Playhouse and Liverpool Playhouse), Any Means Necessary (Nottingham Playhouse), Lardo (Old Red Lion Theatre), The Hairy Ape (Old Vic), Titus Andronicus (Globe), Damascus Aleppo (National Theatre of Scotland at Òran Mór, Glasgow, and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), Game of Life (The Yard), The Double (Theatre Royal Bath), I Was A Beautiful Day, Outward Bound and The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre), The Pearl Fisher, Nova Scotia (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), Mother Courage (Benchtours), The Dead Fiddler (New End Theatre, Hampstead) Television includes: The Witcher, You Don’t Know Me, Surface Film includes: Saving Christmas Spirit, Medusa Deluxe Radio includes: Welcome To Iran Trained at: Rose Bruford College Lady Macduff Jamie Marie Leary This is Jamie’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Cyprus Avenue, Nae Expectations, Aganeza Scrooge (Tron Theatre ) Anna Karenina (Lyceum Edinburgh/Bristol Old Vic), Expensive Sh*t (Soho Theatre/ Traverse Theatre), Class Act: Silver, Breakfast Plays: BIRTH (Traverse Theatre), Locker Room Talk (Traverse Theatre /Latitude festival), Stand By (Utter Theatre/The Byre), 549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War (Wonderfools), Cinderella, A Christmas Carol (Citizens Theatre), Holding/ Holding On, Tero Buru (National Theatre of Scotland) Television includes: Traces, Ralph & Katie, River City, The Nest, Casualty Film includes: I Swear, Hen-Do, Car Sick Shepherd, Super November, Where Do We Go From Here Trained at: Langside College Third Witch Irene Macdougall This Is Irene’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Escaped Alone (Tron Theatre), Christmas Carol, Don Quixote, The Steamie, Bookies, Oor Wullie, Tay Bridge, All My Sons, Yellow on the Broom, Deathtrap, The Maids, August Osage County, Death of a Salesman, The Irresistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Cheviot The Stag and the Black Black Oil, Little Red and the Wolf, Glass Menagerie, Time and the Conways, Equus, A Doll’s House, Anna Karenina, The Tempest, Monkey, Merlin the Magnificent, Hansel and Gretel, Scenes From An Execution, The Visit, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Playhouse Creatures, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Romeo and Juliet, Les Parents Terribles, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Flora the Red Menace, Cabaret, A Family Affair, Mince?, Dumbstruck, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Graduate, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peer Gynt, Talking Heads, Macbeth, Elephant Man, Duchess of Malfi, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Intimate Exchanges, The Hypochondriak (Dundee Rep), Losing Venice, Elizabeth Gordon Quinn, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Futureproof (The Traverse), Dracula, The Weavers, The Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Snow Queen, Princess and the Goblin. Arms and the Man, Woyzeck, The Rivals, The Crucible, Hayfever, Old Times, Arsenic and Old Lace, Marriage of Figaro, Fitting for Ladies, Hamletmachine (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), Man With Connections, Dangerous Corner, Comedy of Errors, Abigail’s Party, Little Foxes (Perth Theatre) Television incudes: Casualty, Vanity Fair, Doctor Finlay, Taggart Directing credits include: Talking Heads, Thirty-Nine Steps, Whisky Galore, Talk To Me Like The Rain And Let Me Listen…, Much Ado About Nothing (Dundee Rep), Write-Off (Oran Mor) Ross John McLarnon This is John's RSC debut Theatre includes: No Love Songs (Traverse Theatre, Dundee Rep, Southwark Playhouse and Goodspeed), Orphans, My Left Right Foot (National Theatre Of Scotland), Local Hero (Lyceum Edinburgh), Sunshine On Leith (West Yorkshire Playhouse/UK Tour), Apologia (Trafalgar Studios, West-End), Abigail's Party (Theatre Royal Bath/UK Tour), The Parting Glass (London Irish Play Festival), The Commitments (Palace Theatre, West End), We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre, West End) Television/film includes: Blood of My Blood, I Swear, Crime, Matilda, Wasting Love, Outlander, Expensive S***, Britstick Trained at: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Angus Conor McLeod This is Conor’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Coriolanus (National Theatre), Barbarians (Filter Theatre), The Threepenny Opera, Lysistrata (Edinburgh King’s Theatre), A Field of Their Own (Strange Town), Jock and the Beanstalk (Tram Direct), The Homecoming (Govanhill), The Invincible Sum (Tron) Television includes: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Control Room, River City Film includes: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods Short film includes: Flaked, A Love Letter to My Former Self, Perfect Strangers Voiceover includes: Voice of Hazard in Overwatch 2 Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama and with Open Door Macduff Alec Newman This is Alec’s RSC debut Theatre includes: East is South, The Dumb Waiter, Uncle Vanya, Alligators, Hapgood (Hampstead Theatre), King Lear, Certain Young Men (Almeida Theatre), Collaboration, The Soldier’s Fortune, Andorra (Young Vic), The Weatherman, These Shining Lives (Park Theatre), Bug (Found 111), The Motherf**ker With The Hat, Danton’s Death (National Theatre), King Lear (Donmar Warehouse /BAM New York), The Fastest Clock In The Universe (Hampstead Theatre/Leicester Curve), Desperately Seeking Susan (Novello Theatre), The Recruiting Officer (Chichester Festival Theatre), Plenty (Albery Theatre), The Glass Menagerie, Translations (Royal Lyceum) Television includes: Hijack, The Hack, Department Q, Protection, The Sister Boniface Mysteries, Grace, Karen Pirie, Shetland, Love in the Lockdown, Showtrial, Unforgotten, Call the Midwife, Eullenia, Strikeback, Outlander, Fearless, Him, The Last Kingdom, Bastard Executioner, Rogue, 24: Live Another Day, Lewis, Dracula, Waterloo Road, Casualty, Warriors: Cortes, Hope Springs, The Reichenbach Falls, Spooks, Tru Calling, Frankenstein, Star Trek: Enterprise, Dark Shadows, Angel, Children of Dune, Night Flight, The Murder Rooms, Dune, The Blonde Bombshell, Silent Witness, Dangerfield, The Rag Nymph Film includes: The Weight, A Death in the Family, 260 Days, Words Of War, The Hunted, Boys In The Boat, Chevalier, Code of Silence, Eullenia, The Snowman, Where Hands Touch, Greyhawk, Lonely Place To Die,The Fifth Patient, Four Corners Of Suburbia, Constellation, The Principles of Lust, Bright Young Things, Long Time Dead, Greenwich Mean Time Video games include: Cyberpunk 2077, Assassins Creed Syndicate, Dying Light 2, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Still Wakes The Deep (2025 BAFTA Games award for Performer in a Leading Role) Trained at: LAMDA Priest Christopher Patrick Nolan Previous RSC includes: Edward II Theatre includes: Beautiful Thing (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), The Plough and the Stars, War Horse (National Theatre), 1984 (Headlong/Almeida/ West End/US/Melbourne), Blair’s Children (Cockpit Theatre), Faith and Cold Reading (Live Theatre, Newcastle), Scorched (Old Vic Tunnels), The Seagull (Royal Court/ Broadway), Macbeth (Chichester/ West End/BAM/Broadway), Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre), AC/DC, Alice Trilogy (Royal Court), Stones In His Pockets (West End), Molly Sweeney (Theatre Clwyd/National Tour), The Changeling, Of Mice and Men (Southwark Playhouse), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Perth Theatre/National Tour), Into The West/Tir na N’og (Du Maurier Theatre, Toronto/ US Tour), Antigone (Sheffield Crucible/National Tour), The Romans in Britain (Man In The Moon Theatre), Othello, Macbeth (Riverside Studios), Cardenio (Globe), Cloud Nine (Lyric Hammersmith), King Lear (West Yorkshire Playhouse) Television includes: Trigger Point, Worzel Gummidge, White Gold, Macbeth, Lucky Man, Humans, Titanic – Birth of a Legend, Bass Odyssey Film includes: This Land, The Ballad of Billy McCrae, Lynn + Lucy, The King, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, That Deadwood Feeling, Bullethead, Lone Clouds First Witch Alison Peebles Previous RSC includes: Macbeth Theatre includes: Life is a Dream (Royal Lyceum Theatre), Night Vision (Scrutton Productions), 24 Hours of Peace (Royal Exchange Theatre), Confessions of a Justified Sinner (NTS and Untitled Projects), Jekyll and Hyde, My Shrinking Life, 365 (National Theatre of Scotland), Richard III (Perth Theatre), The Locker Room; Shining Souls (Traverse; Theatre), Titus Andronicus (The Rep), Blood Wedding (Northern Stage/Derby Playhouse (Othello (Young Vic), Play, Pie and Pint (Oran Mor), Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Blood Wedding, Carmen The Play 1936 (Communicado Theatre Company), Ubu Roi (ATC), Peer Gynt; Good Person of Sichuan (National Theatre) Television includes: Department Q, Six Four, Step 9, Molly and Mack, River City, Doctors, Sex Traffic, Still Game, Shetland Film includes: The Lost King, The Strange Case Of Jekyll And Hyde, The Road Dance, Nettie I, Where Do We Go From Here?, Seven Lucky Gods, Afterlife Documentary: Multiple, Orphans Reunited Co-founder of Communicado Theatre Company Trained at: Edinburgh College of Art Malcolm Calum Ross This is Calum’s RSC debut Theatre includes: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre, West-End) Theatre while training includes: Yen, Half Full, Richard III, Twelfth Night Television incudes: The Making of Stranger Things, Wednesday, Summerwater Film includes: Kill Trained at: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Lady Macbeth Lia Williams Previous RSC includes: Postcards from America; As You Like It Theatre includes: The Vortex (Chichester Festival Theatre), John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre), Mary Stuart (West End), Oresteia (West End), Celebration/The Room (Lincoln Center, New York and Almeida), The Night of the Iguana, Old Times, The Revengers’ Comedies (Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer / Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance), Absurd Person Singular (West End), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Lover/The Collection (Donmar Warehouse), Arcadia (Broadway), Skylight (National Theatre/Broadway), Earthquakes in London, Hot House, Mappa Mundi (National Theatre), The Father (Theatre Royal, Bath), Oleanna (Royal Court / West End), My Child, King Lear (Royal Court), A Streetcar Named Desire, Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Best Actress Irish Times Awards for both), The Homecoming (Gate Theatre, Dublin / Lincoln Center, New York) Film includes: Scoop, Living; Benediction, The Foreigner; Jonathan Toomey, Girl from Rio, The King is Alive, Different for Girls, The Fifth Province, Firelight, Dirty Weekend Television includes: Day of the Jackal, Mobland, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, The Capture; His Dark Materials, The Crown, Kiri, The Silkworm, The Missing, Secret State, Doc Martin, May 33rd, The Russian Bride (FIPA Award for Best Actress), Imogen’s Face, Shot Through the Heart, Flowers of the Forest, Seaforth, Mr. Wroe’s Virgins Theatre (as Director) includes: Doubt (Chichester Festival Theatre), Ashes to Ashes (West End), The Match Box (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse / Kiln Theatre) Previous Next Cast Porter Michael Abubakar Second Witch Eilidh Fisher Duncan / Siward Gilly Gilchrist Macbeth Sam Heughan Banquo Nicholas Karimi Lady Macduff Jamie Marie Leary Third Witch Irene Macdougall Ross John McLarnon Angus Conor McLeod Macduff Alec Newman Priest Christopher Patrick Nolan First Witch Alison Peebles Malcolm Calum Ross Lady Macbeth Lia Williams Creatives Director Daniel Raggett Set & Costume Designer Anna Reid Lighting Designer Ryan Day Composer Tommy Reilly Sound Designer Tingying Dong Fight Director Alex Payne Dramaturg Rebecca Latham Casting Director Charlotte Sutton CDG Children's Casting Director Charlie Metcalf The Other Place Stratford-upon-Avon 9 Oct - 6 Dec 2025 Book Tickets Running time: To be confirmed About the Play Cast and Creatives The Plot Assisted Performances Related events More Less About the Play Cast and Creatives The Plot Assisted Performances Related events The role of Fleance will be shared by Polly Florence, George Gilchrist and Myles Owen. The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation In This Section About the Play Daniel Raggett returns to direct Shakespeare’s story power and ambition in the intimate setting of The Other Place, with Sam Heughan and Lia Williams. Find out more The Plot Read the story of Shakespeare's psychological thriller, Macbeth, also known as 'The Scottish Play' Find out more Assisted Performances Find out about our assisted performances of Macbeth. Find out more Related events Find out more about our production of Macbeth and how it was created, with our series of events. Find out more Learning Explore information and resources for teachers and learners on Macbeth. Find out more Past productions Including detailed information on the 1976, 1999, 2004 and 2011 productions Read More Merchandise Buy now Macbeth on the Shakespeare Learning Zone Studying Macbeth? 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