Michael Billington on Macbeth: profile of greatest theatrical poem ever written
The destructive nature of unchecked power-lust and political ambition in Shakespeare's play speaks to us urgently still today"A drum! A drum! Macbeth doth come." So say Shakespeare's Weird Sisters in an uncanny prophesy of the Scottish play's ubiquity this coming year. Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff star in Rufus Norris's National Theatre production (previews from 26 February). Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusac…