The director Dominic Cooke talks about the play's relevance for audiences today Macbeth is particularly accessible, because it is such a rich story. I think the supernatural is always fascinating for audiences and the play also contains elements of thriller and adventure. People are, perhaps, more open to the supernatural than they let on. One of the exercises we did at the start of rehearsals was to ask the actors a series of questions like "Do you believe in life after death?" and "Do you believe that people can see into the future?" [to read the whole questionnaire, go to SUPERSTITION in TEACHERS]. We live in a sceptical, rational world today but the play embraces the idea of the supernatural and I think young people tend to be very open to that. Young people have a very strong sense of power dynamics: after all, the playground can be a really brutal place, where power is constantly shifting.
