Best Shakespeare productions: what's your favourite Macbeth?
Rupert Goold's staging, with Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood, is one of Michael Billington's top picks. Which versions of the play have you enjoyed the most? Read more from the seriesIt used to be said that no actor ever succeeded as Macbeth and that it was more a brilliant poem than a stageable play. Both ideas have been knocked on the head in my lifetime. As a teenager, I was lucky enough to see Olivier's guilt-…