Dickens Theatre Company's accessible adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for GCSE students, with a free post-show Q&A at every matinee.
Dickens Theatre Company brings Macbeth to Devonshire Park Theatre on Thursday 4 March 2027, with a matinee at 1:00pm and an evening performance at 7:00pm. It's part of their Revision on Tour programme, which they've been running since 2015, taking classic GCSE English literature texts and turning them into accessible stage adaptations. Macbeth sits alongside Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and A Christmas Carol in that same line-up.
This version is adapted and directed by Ryan Philpott, with music by Paul Higgs and an ensemble of six actors. The production does a couple of things to open up the text: Shakespeare's Chorus is reimagined as a narrator who guides you through the ambition, betrayal and dark prophecy, while the Porter threads the way through Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's descent into chaos amid war and witchcraft. It leans on dynamic multi-roling and modern verse to keep the Bard's bloodiest tragedy chillingly relevant, and it's aimed squarely at GCSE English students, teachers and literature lovers.
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If you're taking the matinee, there's a free 20-minute post-show Q&A with the cast and director, so you can pick their brains about the production after the curtain falls. The theatre is on Compton Street in Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 4BW, with the two performances on Thursday 4 March at 1:00pm and 7:00pm.
