Banquo's ghost haunts Macbeth (Sir Patrick Stewart) at a dinner party. Lady Macbeth (Kate Fleetwood) tries to remain in control of her husband's delusions and the festivities.

When Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost, he is terrified. The ghost is a reminder of the crime he has committed. In many ways Banquo is the opposite of Macbeth. He is caring, loyal and trustworthy.

When Banquo is eventually butchered, he is murdered in plain sight, cut down in a crowded railroad car. His executioners know that in Macbeth’s police state no-one will dare intervene. They don’t.

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Hanley replied, referring to the specter that haunted Shakespeare's Macbeth. “Curiosity, I suppose.” I was just 25 years old when I first encountered Marty Hanley.

Likewise, Sam McInerney’s Banquo shines as the ghost come to haunt Macbeth and fire up his disturbed mind. The Witches sequences add just the right flavor of supernatural eeriness to the show.

If not the effect of visions on how events play out, one would be hard-pressed to label any other particular theme so vividly explored by Shakespeare. Embodied and channelled by the supernatural ...

Fiennes’ Macbeth is an old warrior, battle-hardened yet weary of spirit. Banquo (Steffan Rhodri), his loyal buddy on the field, seems even older.