The tragedy of Macbeth is the most widely read and seen of Shakespeare's plays. Swayed by his aspirational wife, an honourable soldier embarks on a spiralling path of killing and deceit to become King of Scotland.  The story charts the struggle of good and evil; it is a tale of desire, conscience and delusion, where social and psychological disorder fuse with war, witches and the supernatural in a play of thrilling and bloody ‘vaulting ambition’. It is a kaleidoscope of human experience, a succinct political thriller which delves deep into the mind of a murderer.