It's Macbeth for Kidz

THE notorious Scottish Play – Macbeth - gets the Shakespeare 4 Kidz treatment next week at Lancaster Grand Theatre.
It's full of weird witches and spooky spells that make Harry Potter and his friends look like amateurs. There are bloody battles, gruesome ghosts and even a forest which moves.

And because many theatre folk believe the play to be jinxed lots of celebrities have been sending the company good luck wishes, including Stephen Fry, Joe Pasquale and West End actor Jonathan Pryce, who had his own bad luck stories to tell after playing Macbeth.

The S4K Macbeth has been very well received each of the five times it has toured since its premiere in 2000.

Creator Julian Chenery said: "The famous curse is something we've had our share of in the past.

"In the autumn of 2000 we had incessant rain for three months which affected all of our get-ins and get-outs; a national fuel strike which made it nigh impossible to move the production around the UK; the actor playing Banquo hit his head on the windscreen of the cast coach; the actor playing King Duncan went down with Bell's Palsy making half his face freeze; and one of the stage crew walked into a door and fractured her skull. Apart from that the show was a huge hit and has remained immensely popular ever since!"

Shakespeare 4 Kidz plays use the most famous lines from the original texts, weave them into modern language, and add some songs and dances into the mix.

The whole plot is retained and all the major characters are there too.

Macbeth plays the Grand on Friday, September 18 at 10.30am and 1.30pm. Tickets priced £16/£9.50 for children are on sale now from the box office on 64695.

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