This interpretation of 'Macbeth' considers dramatic action as the most essential component, above all dramaturgical concerns. As such, the intent of the design is to load key moments of action with all the weight and brute force that the text offers potential for.

The setting is non-specific to period or place, - the only reference to the Scottish landscape is the muddy battlefield which spreads across the majority of the stage space - instead, the characters reside in an unnamed, unnatural world, beneath a monolith of white light.

Upstage, at the centre of a stretch of weather-beaten concrete, a corrugated iron shutter rolls open to reveal a second space. A clinical steel chamber, solid in contrast to the mounds of dirt lapping at its entrance. This inward room repurposes as Duncan’s bed chamber - the very image of the sleeping king backdrops Macbeth’s contemplative second soliloquy, would-be-assassin and victim on juxtaposed plains, separated only by the dramatic veil. Macbeth passes through on the sound of the bell, meeting his decision in the flesh and pulls the shutter, rattling down on both.