The Stanley Baxter Playhouse

A comic retelling of events at Dunsinane Castle. Stanley Baxter plays Macbeth's porter.

In the first play of a new series, Gordon Kennedy, Stuart McQuarrie and Siobhan Redmond join Stanley Baxter in a comedy based on Shakespeare's Scottish play, in which Macbeth's porter becomes the hero and invites listeners to hear his version of the events that led up to the murder of King Duncan - and what just might have happened after it.

Listeners discover that it was all really Lady Macbeth's fault for marrying Macbeth and spoiling the porter's long-term plans to groom his coarse and unschooled master to be a suave, smooth operator with fine manners and a statesman-like approach to politics. His plans are foiled in a series of hilarious and cunning mishaps.

The cast stars Stanley Baxter as the Porter, Gordon Kennedy as Macbeth, Siobhan Redmond as Lady Macbeth and Stuart McQuarrie as Duncan and the Nobleman.

The play is written by Rona Munro, one of Scotland's most highly regarded playwrights, with award-winning films (Ken Loach's Lady Bird, Lady Bird), television dramas (Rehab) and her Edinburgh International Festival success (The Last Witch) to her credit.