Macbeth

Locations

18 beautiful indoor venues

Performances

22 devishly good performances

Season

Our inaugural winter season

Year

2024

Our 2024 production of Macbeth with wicked music and devilishly good tunes. Our inaugural winter season took us to beautiful indoor venues across London.

Photographs by James Millar

Reception

Critical Acclaim

‘Shakespeare and churches are a perfect fit, as the history of the words combines with the history of the building to create something extra special.’

– Mind the Blog

‘Macbeth has to veer from nonchalance to guilty anguish and back again within seconds. But when cast and crew are so intent on entertaining the audience, it feels churlish not to enjoy it.’

– The Reviews Hub

‘We had such a good time yesterday. The play is such fun. The actors excellent. We loved it.’

– Joelle, St Mark’s Kennington

‘A lively and imaginative Macbeth where tragedy meets humour in unexpected ways.’

– A Young(ish) Perspective

‘Shakespeare in the Squares have created a very fine storytelling of Macbeth, the adaptation keeps the tale moving and the skills of the multirole playing actors provide aural variation.’

– The Spy in the Stalls

‘Another triumph! To think that it could be done with just five actors, amazing.’

– Bruce, St Paul’s Camden

Actors

Cast

Sam D’Leon

Duncan / Fortune Teller / MacDuff / Doctor / Lord / Murderer

After finishing his training at ALRA, Sam joined a clown troupe Jo Jo & Co and spent the 90s performing in circus and theme parks with The Clowns Collective. Sam also juggled in night clubs and performed street mime in resorts around the world. As a multi-instrumentalist Sam has toured internationally with numerous bands and across genres, most recently with Tashkezar, a middle eastern fusion band. Theatre credits include Constantine in The Seagull, Giovanni in Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Touchstone in As You Like It, Keith Burges in Stage Door, Bronterre O’Brian Price in Major Barabra, The Snake and The Geographer in The Little Prince and, most recently, Pompey in Measure For Measure.

Mohab Kaddah

Malcolm / Fortune Teller / Murderer / Messenger / Banquo’s ghost

Mohab trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Credits while training include Dimitri Weismann in Follies (RCSSD); Mr Faris in Weeverfish (RCSSD). Other credits include Villager in Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (Disney); Vulture in Jungle Book (Disney).

Gavin Molloy

Macbeth / Captain / Murderer

Gavin trained at LAMDA. Theatre credits include Sherlock Holmes The Valley of Fear (Blackeyed Theatre), Hamlet and The Merchant Of Venice (Creation Theatre Company), The Canterbury Tales (Royal Centre Nottingham), Macbeth (Lyric Studio), The Alchemist (Riverside Studios), Everything Must Go (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith), Crave (Goldsmiths) and The Kebab Shop Owner’s Beautiful Daughter (Soho Theatre). Gavin’s television credits include Conspiracy (5Production), Crimewatch (BBC), Eastenders (BBC), Breaking The Band (ITV/Potato), Gimme 6 (Common Ground), Longitude (Granada) and Grange Hill (BBC). His film credits include The Wedding Video (Timeless Films), Pulp (Dare Productions), The Fallen Word (Celestial Pictures), The Power Of Three (Po3), Touch (Westminster Films) 20hz (Met), Strange Days (Ruskin Films) and Kol Nidrei (RedHead). His music video work includes Yusuf Islam (Propeller Media), Ashley Wallbridge (Reels In Motion), Dolly Rockers (Pulse), Towers Of London (LadyRay) and Goldfrapp (BlackDog).

Cathy Walker

Lady Macbeth / Banquo / Macduff Junior / Siward

Cathy trained at the Poor School and achieved First Class Honours in English with Drama from Sheffield University, where she also won the William Empson Prize for Acting. Theatre credits include The Unfriend (Wyndhams & Criterion); Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre Productions), Untold Stories (National Theatre Productions), The Mousetrap (St Martin’s), Nesting (The Watermill), Present Laughter (Bath Theatre Royal), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Jersey Opera House), Macbeth (Shakespeare In Schools), The Tempest (Blunderbus Theatre Company), Richard III (Greenwich Playhouse), Redlands R&D (Chichester Festival Theatre), Night Out In Nature (Frozen Light), Death of Philip II (Split Moon). Television includes EastEnders; Deep Cuts. Film includes Alexander the Great.

Molly Walker

Ross / Fortune Teller / Lady Macduff / Seyton

Molly Walker is an actor and poet from East London. Following her training at Rose Bruford College, she has appeared in stage productions including The National Theatre’s Shut Up I’m Dreaming, The Lost Lionesses at The Space, Pit Party at The Barbican, Friction at Theatre503, Wild, actually at The Pleasance, Secret Cinema’s Guardians of the Galaxy and the West End’s Doctor Who: Time Fracture. Molly also features in Charlotte Regan’s short film Missing. As a writer, Molly has performed her poetry all over the country, including Glastonbury Festival and The Roundhouse.

Behind the Scenes

Crew

Sioned Jones

Director

Sioned has directed the past three summer Shakespeare in the Squares shows: All’s Well That Ends Well (2024), Twelfth Night (2023), The Tempest (2022). She has over 30 years’ experience as an actor with several appearances at the National Theatre and in the West End. She can next be seen on TV in FBI International. She is also a keen ceramicist.

Francesca Gregson

Producer / Marketing

Francesca is the founder of Distrikt Communications, a London-based PR and marketing agency. Distrikt works with a range of creative clients, including architectural practices, theatre companies and arts festivals. Francesca is dedicated to promoting the best of London’s cultural activities and events. Francesca joined Shakespeare in the Squares as Marketing Manager for The Tempest in 2022.

Alex Pearson

Producer

Alex is an experienced Director and Producer, who has worked at a large number of venues throughout London and the rest of the country, on a multitude of different productions, including plays, musicals and operas. Alex has a passion for Shakespeare, and is progressively working through his entire cannon, either as Assistant Director or Director. Alex joined Shakespeare in the Squares as Assistant Director for The Tempest in 2022.

John Huyton

Company Manager

John trained at The Drama Centre London and has worked as Company Manager on numerous UK Tours and West End productions. John has worked with producers Sonia Friedman, Michael Harrison & Kenny Wax, Cameron Mackintosh, The Ambassador Theatre Group and PW Productions Ltd, on productions directed by Trevor Nunn, Lindsey Posner, Robin Herford, Simon Callow and Craig Revell Horwood. Shows have featured well known actors such as Brian Cox, Patrick Stewart, Dame Diana Rigg, Zoe Wannamaker, Dominic West, Simon Callow, Joanna Lumley, Sinead Cusack and Rufus Sewell.

Jane Frisby

Casting Director

Jane has been the Shakespeare in the Squares casting agent since 2021. Credits include Happy Hour for Director Lesley Manning (Gatehouse Highgate), Bed for Director Matthew Gould (Brighton), Edinburgh Festivals and several films.

Annemarie Lewis Thomas

Musical Director

Credits include Sleeping Beauty (Watersmeet), Crazy Coqs Presents, West End at the Life Cafe, Oliver (Wycombe Swan), Elephant and Piggie’s We Are In A Play (Perform in the Park), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Squares), Don’t Tell The Bishop (Actors’ Church), Misleading Ladies (Cornerstone, Cardiff), Billie The Kid (Workshop & West End concert), The Wizard of Poz (2 Brewers), The Greater Game (Southwark Playhouse), Home for Christmas (Grand Theatre, Swansea), From Up Here (Trafalgar Studios), Annie (No 1 tour), Black Eyed Susan (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Rent (Olympia Theatre Dublin) UK premieres of Victor/Victoria (Bridewell), The Ultimate Man (Bridewell), Reefer Madness (Bridewell) and Naked Boys Singing (Madam JoJos), the London premiere of Calamity Jane (BAC). Annemarie has also composed for many shows and was the Founder & Principal of the multi-award winning drama college, The MTA, 2009 – 2022.

Honor Klein

Stage Manager

Honor graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre credits: Here In America (Orange Tree Theatre); The End (Bush Theatre); The Watsons (Mountview); The Bleeding Tree (Southwark Playhouse); Breeding (King’s Head Theatre); The Good John Proctor (Jermyn Street Theatre); Cinderella & The Coronation of Poppea (English Touring Opera); As We Face The Sun (Bush Theatre); Barnum’s Bird (Royal College of Music); 2:22 A Ghost Story (Criterion Theatre), Ava: The Secret Conversations (Riverside Studios), The Magic Flute (Royal College of Music), Curious (Soho Theatre); The Tide (Talawa), 2021 & 2020 Summer Theatre Festival (Roman Theatre), Peter Pan (Alban Arena), Triple Bill (Royal College of Music).

Kathryn Corlett

Graphic Designer & Illustrator

Kathryn is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator, this is her fifth year creating bespoke, theme specific designs for the Shakespeare in the Squares productions. She studied Graphic Design at Falmouth College of Arts and has 19 years experience as a professional designer, working on a broad range of projects including marketing, book, exhibition and brand design.

Eleanor Lloyd

Press

Eleanor is the Communications Manager of Distrikt Communications. She has a BA in English Literature and Language and an MA in Media and Creative Industries from Loughborough University. As a keen theatre-goer, she is delighted to be a part of the Shakespeare in the Squares team.

Jida Akil

Designer

Syrian/Lebanese Jida trained at Central Saint Martins. Selected credits: All Growed Up (Lyric Belfast), Painkiller (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Five Shorts (Young Vic), Funeral Flowers (UK Tour), Penguin (UK Tour), Tender (UK Tour), The 4th Country (Park Theatre), How To Break Out of a Detention Centre (Riverside Studios), The Poison Belt (Jermyn Street), For A Palestinian (Camden People’s & Bristol Old Vic), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stafford Gatehouse), Complicité Do A-Level Drama (Schools Tour), Human Nurture (Schools Tour). Her designs have also gained international acclaim in exhibitions.

Colette Robinson-Collcutt

Costume Supervisor

Colette is a costume supervisor and costume maker based in London. Her work has been seen in many Fringe and West End shows. Recent credits include Wardrobe Assistant on Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe), Head of Wardrobe for Wishmas (Secret Cinema), Wardrobe assistant on Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe). Previous Shakespeare in the Square credits as costume supervisor: Twelfth Night (2023), The Tempest (2022).

Sylvie Lefebver

Assistant Stage Manager / Wardrobe Assistant

Sylvie’s interest in costume began at the age of 12, making regency military uniforms and womenswear. She moved to the UK to study Historical Costume Design at Arts University Bournemouth. She started her career with a summer in Italy, as Deputy Head of Wardrobe for La Musica Lyrica, working on Sour Angelica, Falstaff and Le Nozze di Figaro. She has since worked on Antony and Cleopatra at Shakespeare’s Globe and on events for Warburton Costumes and Cirque Bijou.

Martin Neild

Founder Producer

Martin worked in publishing for over thirty years. He worked for Macmillan in Australia,Africa and London and became Chief Executive of Hodder & Stoughton Publishers in 1993. He is Co-Chair of the Oxford School of Drama and a trustee of the Michael Cuddigan Trust which gives grants to young composers. He, too, is a regular and passionate theatregoer.

Sue Fletcher

Founder Producer

Sue had a forty-year career in book publishing, including as co-founder of Headline and Deputy MD of Hodder & Stoughton. She has an MA in Theatre and Performance from Queen Mary, University of London, and in 2011 was one of the judges for the Olivier Awards. She goes to the theatre three or four times a week and remains captivated by the magic of live performance.