This RSC production was directed by Polly Findlay. It followed, for me, fairly hot on the heels of the Rufus Norris version at the National.
The most memorable and startling aspect of the RSC production was the use of children as the witches. Dressed in red, they had an almost satanic feel to them and were certainly unsettling. As with the National production, my issues were more with the play than its rendition - in particular the over-hasty and unplanned murder of the king and subsequent murder of his guards. However, in this production, the latter murders seemed more plausible.
The acting was very good, particularly Niamh Cusack as Lady Macbeth. She positively spat out her contempt for her husband's (played by Chrisopher Eccleston) lack of resolve.
The Barbican theatre was on the night of my visit like a giant school outing and it must be a testimony to the quality of the production that one would never have known the audience was mainly schoolchildren while the play was taking place.
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