Macbeth on the Estate (1997)

In this present-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the story moves to a council estate where survival is tied to drug dealing and shoplifting. James Frain stars as Macbeth and Susan Vidler as Mrs Macbeth, whose ambition pushes him toward violence. With Duncan cast as the estate’s Godfather, Macbeth is drawn into a deadly act that sets the familiar tragedy in a stark modern world.