Macbeth

Nastier than Scorsese at his bleakest, more violent than Tarantino at his bloodiest, Shakespeare’s Macbeth still shocks like no other tale on the page, stage, or screen. Now this chilling portrait of temptation, ambition, and betrayal gets staged at Chicago’s Filament Theatre. Set in a gloomy world of ghosts and witches, the tragedy’s cycle of corruption is thrown into motion when the popular King Duncan of Scotland is murdered by his trusted friend and general Macbeth. Driven by a supernatural prophesy and his wife’s deadly ambition, Macbeth goes on to claim his destiny. But just as he grasps the crown, it starts to slip through his bloody fingers.