Macbeth

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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 

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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 GirlsThe Power, The English Game, The Nest

Film includes: The Outrun 

Trained at: The American Academy of Dramatic Arts  

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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

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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

 

 

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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

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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 

 

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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)

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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

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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 

 

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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

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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, HumansTitanic – Birth of a LegendBass 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

 

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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 QSix FourStep 9, Molly and MackRiver City, Doctors, Sex Traffic, Still GameShetland

Film includes: The Lost KingThe Strange Case Of Jekyll And Hyde, The Road DanceNettie 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

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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 

 
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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)

  • The Other Place

    Stratford-upon-Avon

    9 Oct - 6 Dec 2025 Book Tickets
  • Running time:

    To be confirmed

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