Shakespeare's classic tale of the Scots nobleman whose ambition, spurred on by his alluring wife and an evil prophecy, leads him to treachery, murder and damnation. Trevor Nunn's highly acclaimed Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company, has been praised as the most successful Shakespeare production for many years. This production retains the original RSC cast, in which Sir Ian McKellen appears as Macbeth and Dame Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. Wherever possible, use has been made of the original RSC costumes, props and sets.