Funny side of Macbeth

Following last year’s performance of A Midsummer Nights Dream, the company is coming back to Warwickshire to perform one of Shakespeare’s tragedies at Warwick Castle on Tuesday July 5 and Wednesday July 6 at 7.30pm, and then at Mary Arden’s Farm in Stratford on Friday July 29 and Saturday July 30 from 7.30pm.

For around 20 years, Oddsocks, formed by husband and wife Andy Barrow and Elli Mackenzie, has been sharing with audiences its unique versions of well-known plays with its trademark family friendly, madcap, slapstick style.

The company takes classic texts, from writers such as Shakespeare, Dickens, The Brontes, Robert Louis Stephenson and Victor Hugo, and adapts them into heart-warming, humorous, vibrant and feel-good theatre.

The group’s latest play will show a battle against good and evil in a physically exciting spectacle, based on the bard’s original text, complete with power hungry rulers, mad wives, sword fights, wandering stilted witches, walking trees, blood, wigs, music, dancing and lots of audience participation.

Visitors to the show are asked to bring picnics, rugs or garden seating and some warm clothes depending on how cold it is, as Oddsocks perform whatever the weather.

Warwick Castle is offering a 50 per cent off voucher for everyone who books to see a performance there.

For Warwick Castle production tickets call Warwick Tourist information Centre on 492212, or for Mary Arden’s Farm production tickets call 01789 293 455. Alternatively go online.