Macbeth

Audio Described [AD] - Sat 14 Feb 2026, 2pm (Audio Introduction Notes available closer to the show date)
Audio Described by Jill Quarmby

Touch Tour [TT] (for blind and visually impaired customers attending the Audio Described show) - Sat 14 Feb 2026, 12.30pm (places must be booked in advance with the Box Office or when prompted during the online booking process)

Relaxed Performance [RP] - Tue 17 Feb 2026, 7.30pm & Wed 25 Feb 2026, 10.15am (Show experience guide available closer to the show date)

BSL Interpreted [BSL] - Tue 24 Feb 2026, 7.30pm & Thu 26 Feb, 10.15am
BSL Interpreted by Dave Wycherley.

Captioned (open) [CAP] - Tue 24 Feb 2026, 7.30pm
Live captions provided by Claire McIntyre.

For more information about what the above access shows include, please click here and scroll down the page.

Enrich your classroom with three expertly designed workshops to enhance and diversify the experience of teaching and learning Shakespeare.

For more information about each school offer including cost and availability please CLICK HERE.

CPD for Teachers (Workshop and Show), Fri 06 Feb 2026

Inset CPD session focused on teaching Macbeth offering exciting new approaches to engaging your classroom.

Creative Revision Day

Bring Macbeth to life! This immersive revision experience helps KS4 students consolidate knowledge and prepare for exams through active learning.

Drama Workshop

Understand the plot and characters of Macbeth with our drama-based approach, making Shakespeare accessible and memorable, supporting learners of all abilities.

Oliver Alvin-Wilson

Macbeth

Theatre credits include:

Troilus and Cressida (Shakespear’s Globe), Bardcore - Midsummer Mayhem (1623 Theatre Company), Dr. Strangelove (Noel Coward Theatre); Now, I See (Stratford East); Disruption (Park Theatre); All of Us (National Theatre); Henry VI Rebellion/War of the Roses (RSC); Samskara (The Yard Theatre); The Doctor (Almeida Theatre); The Twilight Zone (Ambassadors Theatre); Nine Night (Trafalgar Studios); Genesis Inc (Hampstead Theatre); Nine Night (National Theatre); Genesis Inc (Hampstead Theatre); The Twilight Zone (Almeida Theatre); Hamlet (HamletScenen); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Young Vic Theatre); The Red Barn (National Theatre); Othello (Stratford Gatehouse Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Propeller Theatre Company); The Merchant of Venice (Propeller Theatre Company); Antigone Adapted by Roy Williams (Royal Stratford East Theatre); Henry V (Propeller Theatre Company); Doctor Faustus (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Citizens Theatre); Blue/Orange (UK tour); Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Pilot Theatre); Anthony & Cleopatra (Nuffield Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird (Theatre Clwyd & Tour); All’s Well That Ends Well (National Theatre); Pigeon Love (The Space); Much Ado About Nothing (Derby Live); This Child (Pilot Theatre); The Gala (RSC); World Poetry Day Recital (RSC); Seven Ages of Poetry (RSC).

Television credits include:

Curfew (Vertigo for Paramount+); The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power (Amazon); The Bay (ITV); Murder in Provence (Monumental); The Rebel (UK TV Gold); Collateral (BBC); Lovesick (Netflix); From Cradle to Grave (ITV); Misfits (Channel 4); Hollyoaks (Channel 4); Casualty (BBC).

Film credits include:

Harkness (Orchard Films); Wonder Woman 1984 (Warner Bros); The Huntsman (Universal Pictures).

Jo Mousley

Lady Macbeth

Jo has worked extensively in theatre after training at Birmingham School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre credits include: 

Grace Pervades (Theatre Royal Bath, Ralph Fiennes season); Welfare, Brassed Off, Two (Derby Theatre); Electric Rosary (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Helen (Theatre 503); Nine Night (Leeds Playhouse/Nottingham Playhouse); Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Oldham Coliseum); Hello and Goodbye (York Theatre Royal); Be My Baby, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, Europe, Road (Leeds Playhouse); Relatively Speaking, The Father, Saturday Night Sunday Morning (Oldham Coliseum/Harrogate Theatre); The Twits (Leicester Curve/Rose Theatre Kingston); Horrible Histories: Horrible Christmas (Birmingham Stage); The Full Monty (Tour/David Pugh Ltd); Corrie! (Phil McIntyre Ltd and New Zealand Tour/Sean McKenna Presents); Arabian Nights (Library Theatre/Winner Best Ensemble MEN Awards).

TV credits include:

Coronation Street, Emmerdale (ITV); Doctors, Nice Guy Eddie (BBC); Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures/channel 4); Polterheist (India Calling Productions); Monroe (Monroe Productions) ‘That’s What Makes It Christmas’ Tesco commercial (Biscuit Filmworks Productions).

Simon Trinder

Macduff

Simon trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is an Associate Artist and Text Consultant at Shakespeare's Globe. As an actor, he was a recipient of the BBC Carleton Hobbs Radio Drama award (2000) and joined the BBC Radio Repertory Company.

For Shakespeare’s Globe:

As an actor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Golden Ass and, as text consultant, A Midsummer Night's Dream - For One Night Only, Romeo and Juliet, Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, The Winter’s Tale, Playing Shakespeare: The Tempest.

Other work as text consultant includes Richard III at the Rose Theatre and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Manchester Royal Exchange. 

Theatre credits include:

Productions with the Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre, Young Vic, Barbican, Birmingham Rep, Chichester Festival Theatre, Hamburg State Opera and the Royal Exchange Manchester, and 13 plays for the RSC in Stratford upon Avon, on the West End and overseas.

Awards:

Clarence Derwent Award (Best Supporting Actor on a British Stage) for The Taming of the Shrew; Helen Hayes Award (USA) and London’s Evening Standard Award nominations for the RSC productions The Taming of the Shrew and The House of Desires.

Film and TV credits include:

Without You, The Children, Midwinter of the Spirit, The Good Karma Hospital, Vera, Holby, Ordinary Lies, Wolfblood, Katy, the BBC documentary In Search of Shakespeare and The Hollow Crown: Richard II.

Musical theatre credits include:

Disney's The Lion King and Merry Wives the Musical for the RSC. 

Cayvan Coates

Malcolm

Trained at RADA (BA Hons), Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Foundation Course), National Youth Theatre. 

Television credits include:

Too Much (Netflix), Casualty (BBC), Midsomer Murders (ITV), Vera (ITV), The Chelsea Detective (Acorn).

Theatre credits include:

Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (National Theatre - Lead) What It Means (Wilton’s Music Hall) 

Workshop credits include:

Fence (Finborough Theatre) Keep a Light on for Those Who Are Lost (Bush Theatre) 

Film credits include:

Fortitude (Feature Film), Alfie’s Island (lead). 

Colin Hurley

Duncan/Porter

Theatre credits include:

Othello, Troilus and Cressida, A Month In The Country, Hamlet, Camino Real (The RSC); As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Richard III, Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2, Henry V,  Henry VI, Anne Boleyn, All’s Well That Ends Well, Henry VIII, Romeo and Juliet, In Extremis, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure For Measure, Troilus and Cressida, The Winter’s Tale, The Golden Ass, Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); Remember This, Mary Stuart, King Lear, Richard III Wild Oats, The Oedipus Plays (National Theatre); Lear’s Shadow (The Brockley Jack); Hamlet, The Seagull, Boiling Frogs, Julius Caesar (The Factory); Loot, Sailor Beware (Lyric Hammersmith); The Woman In Black (Fortune Theatre); I am Shakespeare (Chichester); Britannicus, Hamlet, She Stoops to Conquer, The Dumb Waiter (Salisbury Playhouse); Henry V, Edward III (Theatre Clwyd); The Comedy of Errors (Bristol Old Vic); The Tempest (Chester Gateway)

TV credits include: 

Dreamland, Flowers, Stath Lets Flats, The Bill, The Chief, Peak Practice, Holby City, Eastenders, The Chief, David Copperfield 

Film credits include:

Portraits of Dangerous Women, The Joy of Growing Pineapples, Black Pond, The Darkest Universe, Henry V

Josie Morley

Lady Macduff/Witch

Hull born and bred, Josie trained at the University of Hull and graduated with a degree in Drama and Theatre Practice in 2013.

She has worked at venues including Hull Truck Theatre, York Theatre Royal, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Everyman, Derby Theatre & Theatre Royal Wakefield and has performed in award-winning & critically acclaimed productions with companies such as Middle Child Theatre, The Roaring Girls and the John Godber Company.

Theatre credits include:

The last 11 Middle Child pantos, ‘The Thankful Village’ (Bad Apple, York Theatre Royal), 'Pleasant Land' (Derby Theatre/Puls Festival, Vienna), 'Virtual Horizons' (Jack Chamberlain Creative/Maureen Lennon), 'Three Minute Monologues' (Middle Child/The Warren), 'This One’s For Us' (Middle Child), 'Tortoise and The Hare' (Hull Truck Theatre/Birmingham Rep), 'Us Against Whatever’ (Middle Child/Hull Truck Theatre/Liverpool Everyman), ‘Beach Body Ready', (The Roaring Girls/Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe), ‘Back To Bransholme’ (Back To Ours), It’s Different For Girls’ (She Productions/UK tour), ‘The Kings Of Hull’ & ‘Long Live The Kings Of Hull’ (The John Godber Company/Hull New Theatre), ‘Weekend Rockstars’ (Middle Child/Edinburgh Festival/UK tour), ‘Broken Little Robots’ (The Roaring Girls/Assemble Fest/Hull Truck Theatre), ‘This Might Hurt’ & ‘The Empty Nesters’ Club’ (The John Godber Company/UK tours), ‘Omniscience’ (Assemble Fest), ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ (Middle Child) and Cosmic (Tom Wells/Hull Truck Theatre). 

Deb Pugh

First Witch/Cover/Movement Director

Deb Pugh is a freelance theatre maker and movement director, originally trained at École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. 

Deb is thrilled to return to Hull having, most recently, movement directed and performed in the fantastic The Borrowers.

Deb is an associate artist with Ad Infinitum, developing and performing original physical work with them since 2007. Most recently as co-creator and performer of Beautiful Evil Things, a solo retelling of the Trojan War as seen through the eyes of the monstrously maligned Medusa. Other projects with the company include: Translunar Paradise, Ballad of the Burning Star, Light, Extraordinary Wall [of Silence], and If You Fall.

Outside of Ad Infinitum, Deb is a freelance performer, director and movement director.

Theatre credits include: Elmet (Javaad Alipoor Company), Oliver Twist (Derby Theatre) The Borrowers (Hull Truck), Pinocchio (Hull Truck), Jekyll and Hyde (Derby Theatre), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Sheffield Crucible), An Adventure (Bush Theatre, London), The Twits (Curve, Leicester and Rose Theatre, Kingston), Spitfire (Lowry Theatre), Declaration (Lowry Theatre), Bassett (Sheffield Crucible), Kristin Lavransdatter (North Wall), and If You Fall (Bristol Old Vic).

Deborah is also a visiting practitioner at a number of drama schools and universities.

Daniel Poyser

Banquo

Theatre credits include:

Husk (Hope Mill Theatre); Macbeth, Nine Night, The Crucible (Leeds Playhouse); The Island (Elysium Theatre Co); A View from the Bridge (York Theatre Royal); The Play That Goes Wrong (The Duchess Theatre); The Iliad (The Lyceum, Edinburgh); The Island, The Three Musketeers (The Young Vic); The Comedy of Errors, Welcome to Thebes, Death and the King’s Horseman, England People Very Nice, The Odyssey, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Much Ado About Nothing, The Emperor Jones (National Theatre); Romeo & Juliet, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Les Blancs (Royal Exchange).

TV credits include:

Brief Encounters, Drifters, Monday Monday, Waterloo Road, Doctors, Ben’s Patient, Casualty, Khidaar, Coronation Street, Merseybeat, City Central, Band of Gold.

Film credits include:

A Hand Rises, Insulate, On the Ropes, Waiting for You, Six Bend Trap, Dot Kill.

Radio credits include:

The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Takeaway, Patty’s Patties and Face.

Benjamin Wilson

Ross

Benjamin Wilson is a blind actor, director and audio description consultant. He was formally the Ramps On The Moon Agent For Change at Sheffield Theatres and Trainee Artistic Director at Extant. He co-founded both theatre company Brick Wall Ensemble and creative audio description company Hear The Picture.

Recent acting credits include:

Much Ado About Nothing and Guys and Dolls for Sheffield Theatres; Lord of the Flies, Macbeth, Oliver Twist and Road for Leeds Playhouse; Of Mice and Men, Three Billy Goats Gruff and Chicken Licken (Derby Theatre); Midsummer night’s Dream, (Royal Shakespeare Company); Anthony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare's Globe); Unseen (Extant)and both Henry 5 and Meic On The Mic for Brick Wall Ensemble.

Through his work as an audio description consultant, Ben has been described as one of British theatre's leading voices on visually impaired access to theatre.  As an actor, he was awarded a commendation at the 2023 edition of The Sunday Times and national Theatre's prestigious Ian Charleson Award.

Livie Dalee

Donalbain/Witch

Livie is an actor from Hull. She is a recent graduate from RCS (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Glasgow and a 2024 BAFTA Scholar. She is a recipient of the Norah Cooper Mulligan Award (verse speaking) as well as the Rosalyn Lipsey Prize (best acting by a female in a comedy role) for her performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night. She has also trained as a member of the National Youth Theatre and is a part of the Godber Theatre Foundation.