David Tennant as Macbeth - Donmar Warehouse / Harold Pinter

Feast as MacDuff’s reaction to the deaths was a long long pause in total silence, it seemed like minutes, then he began circling his finger spiralling it slowly down until it reached the table and he used it to steady himself. It was very strange and affecting. This was in the Minerva just after it had opened.

Do we think a transfer is on the cards for this? Must be tricky with the headphones?

The Encounter played at the Barbican and used the same binaural headphones. I don’t know enough about theatre accessibility to know if the hearing loop at most theatres would allow every attendee to be plugged in. Bet someone on here will be super knowledgeable though.

Saw this last weekend and been mulling over it since. I can't help feeling that for the most part the headphones were there to give the atmospherics, rather than the stated means of allowing us to hear the actors talking quietly. I checked a few times and I could hear them well enough anyway even in such scenes. I would have thought that cunningly placed speakers could have done the same job without the need for us all to sit there wearing rather naff headphones. I can see how the atmospheric sound effects help to present a play like this in such a small space, so it's not a criticism of their use, just the practicalities of how it's delivered.

As to the performance itself, both DT and CJ bring out the characters well, and give their all (please ignore the idiotic article in the Spectator about the play). Not so convinced by the rest of the cast I'm afraid but that's partly in the nature of the play (and there was too much doubling up of minor parts to clearly delineate them anyway).

Overall glad I saw it.

I've seen a couple of posts now mentioning "no witches". Weren't they in the back, behind the glass, to the right?

yes, I think at least two of the musicians voiced the witches, but they never appear on stage.

Sorry, yes, I should have been more specific. I was in the stalls, just next to the musicians and there was some glare on the glass. I could be wrong that it was the musicians speaking those lines and I didn’t buy a programme.

I did buy a programme, but no-one was credited for the witches. My best guess is that their lines were divided between the cast (including the musicians).

I’d forgotten about Cush’s accent. In the end I decided that she was going for some words being more Scottish, that her Lady Macbeth wasn’t from Scotland but had picked up a bit of the accent from the people around her.

What is the scene?

Sounds awful! thank you