Macbeth " review
Octagon, BoltonWas Shakespeare party to the gunpowder plot? It seems a wild assumption, though David Thacker's production is supported by a programme note from Professor Richard Wilson that argues that Macbeth, premiered before King James in 1606, was a direct response to the attempt to destroy the Houses of Parliament the year before. The smoking gun is that one of the conspirators owned a copy of the Jesuit Father …