Rough Magic

The new project from the team behind the Globe’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ spin-off ‘Midsummer Mechanicals’ is another play for kids loosley based on a work of Shakespeare, in this case ‘Macbeth’, catching up with the weird sisters some time after the events of the gorty tragedy. Expect an altogether more family take on the covern in this work, which is co-directed by Kerry Frampton and Ben Hales and directed by Lucy Cuthbertson. Aimed at ages five-plus, it runs in the indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse throughout the summer.