The Tragedy of Macbeth

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star as the murderously ambitious couple in Joel Coen’s bold and fierce adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic drama; a tale of murder, madness, ambition, and wrathful cunning. The Tragedy of Macbeth, first performed in the early 1600s, is Shakespeare’s bloodiest, briefest, most pressurized drama. The play dropped audiences inside the shaken consciences of two close-knit murderers — a war hero husband and a worldly, knowing wife — who, emboldened by a witch’s strange prophecy, collude to assassinate Scotland’s well-loved king.