Face-to-face with witches in an underground car park. Feasting with the Macbeths. Bedding down for the night on the 27th floor as a siege rages around you. Characters sleepwalking through the walls: confiding plots, summoning apparitions and conspiring murder. In the morning waking to find the battle lost or won.

This is William Shakespeare’s Macbeth seen from the inside out. Set in and inspired by Ernő Goldfinger’s iconic and brutal Balfron Tower. This production like a fever-dream leaves you questioning ideas of space and status; dystopia and utopia; waking and sleeping. 

Balfron Tower is one of the most important buildings in London. Balfron, meaning village of mourning in Gaelic, was Ernő Goldfinger’s vision of Utopia. Soon it became a symbol of dystopia. The tower continues to stand stoically looking over east London and the city. Using the personalities of Balfron’s real architect, the inspiration for the definitive Bond villain, this production examines how communities are formed, usurped and charged by individuals.