Australian PremiereFilm | Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo

25 - 26 January 2025

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Australian Premiere | United Kingdom | 2024 | English | Drama | Exempt

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo lead a stellar cast in the Australian Premiere screening of an enthralling new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London.

David Tennant is tremendous...superbly partnered by Cush Jumbo

Financial Times

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Australian Premiere screening starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo

Unsettling intimacy and brutal action combine at breakneck speed as Max Webster (Life of PiHenry V) directs this tragic tale of love, murder, and nature’s power of renewal. With staging ‘full of wolfish imagination and alarming surprise’ (★★★★★ The Guardian), the immersive cinema setting places the audience inside the minds of the Macbeths, asking are we ever really responsible for our actions?

Presented by Sydney Opera House and Sharmill Films

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Cast and credits

Credits

Max Webster
Director

Cast

David Tennant
as Macbeth

Cush Jumbo
as Lady Macbeth

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