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Macbeth in the Abbey Ruins

23 Jul 2025-7 Aug 2025

A never-before-seen immersive Macbeth breaking the fourth wall between actors and audience. Something wicked this way comes as secret actors are revealed to the audience walking through the Ruins.

No stage

No entrances

No exits



No costumes

Who are the actors?

Who are the audience?

Secret Shakespeare

By the production team behind 60 Hour Shakespeare and Shakespeare Unstaged, who brought you 'a wonderful production of Hamlet' (Henley Standard) and the 'hilarious and moving' Twelfth Night (Ali de Souza, Director of Drama at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School).

Macbeth is an open-air, promenade, production and the show must go on in inclement weather. Please use the entrance to Reading Abbey Ruins from Chestnut Walk. The Abbey Ruins is accessible for wheelchair users and those with mobility issues via a sloping footpath from Chestnut Walk.

Photography and video recording of the production is not permitted. Please help us to to avoid spoilers for every audience.

Contact us at shakespeareunstaged@gmail.com

Follow us at instagram.com/secret__shakespeare/