Play Screening | ‘Macbeth’ Starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo | By The Green Room

The student-led theatre effort at NLS, The Green Room, will screen Macbeth, Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy, on 19 November 2025 at NAB 101 (5–7 PM).

The production, staged by the Donmar Warehouse, runs for two hours and stars David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in the lead. It is acclaimed for its electrifying performances and strikingly minimal staging.

The Green Room is a nod to the intimate, lively backstage space in theatres where artists gather before a performance. Here is the exciting schedule for this trimester.

Playwright and the Play

William Shakespeare, widely regarded as the greatest playwright in the English language, remains central to global theatre for his psychological depth, linguistic brilliance, and enduring insight. Written in the early 1600s, Macbeth is one of his shortest yet most ferocious tragedies.

The play follows General Macbeth, whose encounter with a prophetic promise ignites a dangerous interplay of ambition and manipulation. Driven further by political desire and the formidable agency of Lady Macbeth, he descends into regicide, paranoia, moral disintegration, and tyrannical rule. It is a story unflinching in its examination of guilt, masculinity, gender, fate versus self-determination, and the psychological costs of violence.