Director Max Stafford-Clark
Designer Es Devlin
Lighting Designer Johanna Town
Sound Designer Gareth Fry
Music Director Felix Cross
The Cast
Kwaku Ankomah Lennox / Murderer
Kwaku trained at RADA. His theatre includes Tamburlaine the Great (Rose Theatre, Southwark); A Difference Between Friends (Paradoxes Theatre Company, Welsh Tour); The Gods Are Not To Blame (Tiata Fahodzi, Arcola Theatre). Film includes Batman Begins and Cargo. TV includes Ultimate Force for ITV.
Raquel Cassidy Lady Macbeth
Raquel was in the first 2 series of Teachers on Channel 4. Her theatre Includes: Anna Karenina (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Badnuff (Soho); Sunday Father (Hampstead Theatre); Othello (Bury St Edmunds); The Bone Room (Young Vic Studio); Twelth Night (Royal National Theatre); The Censor (Royal Court Downstairs); Couch, Grass & Ribbon (Watermill, Newbury).
Babou Ceesay Malcolm
Babou graduated in 2004 from the Oxford School of Drama where roles included Joe in The Long Goodbye and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night. He has recently completed shooting on the feature film Severance for Dan Films, playing the role of Billy.
Sidney Cole Macduff
Sidney toured in Out of Joint's first ever production, The Queen and I. Other theatre credits include a season at the RSC performing in The Rover, The Great White Hope, Two Noble Kinsman and The Shelter. Television includes Class Act, Finney, French and Saunders and, appropriately for Macbeth, a witchdoctor in Jonathan Creek.
Dave Fishley Ross
Dave’s theatre includes Crime and Punishment in Dalston (Arcola); The Nativity (Young Vic); Twelfth Night (Nuffield, Southampton); Marat/Sade (National Theatre); Macbeth, The Tempest (English Shakespeare Company). Film appearances include Bridget Jones’ Diary, The Man with the Rain in his Shoes, The Fifth Element, Solitaire for Two. Television includes The Bill, A Touch of Frost, Macbeth and Between the Lines.
Adura Onashile Witch / Gentlewoman
Theatre includes The Red Ladies (National/Trafalgar Square); Hippity Hop (Lyric Hammersmith); Black President (Barbican); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pegasus Theatre, Oxford); Trojan Women (The Studios, Oxford); Cleanliness is next to Godliness (site-specific in London); Emi Ijo (Lylian Baylis at Sadlers Wells). Film and television includes Strictly African Dance, Speakez and Comic Relief.
Ben Onwukwe Duncan / Murderer / Doctor
Ben was series-regular Recall in London’s Burning, and Ray Sage in The Bill. Theatre includes Prince Charming in Cinderella (Hackney Empire); Suspects (Swansea); Smile Orange (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Emperor (Royal Court); Andromache (Old Vic). Ben recently took part in a project directed by Dr Bruce Wall alongside inmates of Brixton prison in a production of Othello.
Patrick Robinson Banquo / Siward
Patrick played Ash in the BBC’s Casualty. Recently, he was in Festen at the Almeida and in the West End. His many performances for the RSC include King Lear, King John, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night. Other theatre includes Guantanamo (Tricycle); Dangerous Corner (West Yorkshire Playhouse/West End).
Chris Ryman Seyton
Chris returns to the show having also appeared in Out of Joint’s Talking to Terrorists, both performing and researching. Other theatre includes Ryman in Ryman and the Sheik, Probe (Soho); Confessions of a Showgirl (Theatre Upstairs); Foxhole (Old Red Lyon) and Twelfth Night (National Theatre). Television includes The Bill, Messiah 3, Doctors, Passer By, 2nd Generation, Casualty, The Bill and Alan Partridge 2.
Susan Salmon Lady Macduff / Witch
Susan’s theatre includes Medea (Broadway and US tour); Shoot to Win and Party Girls (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); The Office (Soho Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RNT Touring); Arms and the Man (Orange Tree, Richmond); The House of Bernarda Alba (The Brix) and Low Level Panic (Bristol). Television includes regular appearances as Ruth Walker in Grange Hill.
Danny Sapani Macbeth
Danny’s theatre includes His Dark Materials, Antony and Cleopatra, The Machine Wreckers and Richard II at the National Theatre; To the Green Fields Beyond (Donmar Warehouse); Brutus in Julius Caesar and Charmian in Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe); Neverland (Royal Court); Julius Caesar (Royal Exchange); Measure for Measure (Cheek by Jowl); The Lion (Talawa) and the title role in Othello (Byre, St Andrews). Danny’s television roles include Ricky in two series of Ultimate Force. He played a lead role in Mike Figgis’ Hotel.