



The Grange Theatre presents William Shakespeare’s haunting, Macbeth. We invite you to join us for this contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy. A story of love, murder, and the struggles of a man seeking to control his destiny. Using Shakespeare’s text and a professional cast of North West based actors, the production promises to bring to life this psychological drama in a thrilling new production.
A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come.
the Cast

Matt Concannon
Macbeth
Theatre includes: Richard, My Richard (Shakespeare North Playhouse and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Patriots(Almeida and The Noel Coward Theatre), The Glee Club (The Oldham Coliseum); The Girl on the Train (UK tour); Flashdance (UK tour); One For My Baby (Tristan Bates Theatre); Ordinary Days: A New Musical (Top Note Arts); Flames(Fiddy West Productions).
Television includes: The Lazarus Project (Sky); Miss Scarlet And The Duke (Alibi); Coronation Street (ITV)
Film Includes: Land of Legend

Lamin Touray
Banquo
On screen, Lamin has appeared in some of the UK’s most beloved television series, including Coronation Street, Waterloo Road, Doctors, and All Creatures Great and Small as well as Everything I Know About Love (BBC) and The Biscuits (CBBC).
In theatre, he has worked extensively across the UK, performing in productions by renowned playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Emily Brontë and Caryl Churchill His stage credits include Wuthering Heights (East Riding Theatre), As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Squares), A View from the Bridge (Headlong UK Tour), and What If If Only (Manchester Royal Exchange).
Notably, Lamin has toured twice with the iconic play “Bouncers” by John Godber and collaborated on several other productions with the John Godber Company, including Up ‘n’ Under and Moby Dick.
Lamin’s radio work includes powerful performances and storytelling in About a Boy, Homecoming, and The Contraband Crisis (BBC Radio 4), as well as socially impactful pieces such as The Hidden Victims of Grooming (BBC Stories).

Daneka Etchells
Lady Macbeth
Theatre includes:
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare’s Globe); Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Crucible/Ramps on the Moon); The Welkin, All of Us (National Theatre), Brassed Off (Theatre by the Lake/SJT/Octagon Theatre Bolton); The Real And Imagined History of the Elephant Man (Nottingham Playhouse); FADE (The Lowry/ Leeds Playhouse); Comedy of Errors (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival); Alice (HOME); Northern Girls (Pilot Theatre); Miss Julie (CAST).
TV includes: The Cage (BBC)
Film includes: Supernova (BBC).
Training: ALRA

Isobel Coward
Ross - Donalbain
Isobel trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Stage credits include: Three Minute Monologues (Middle Child Theatre); ‘Celia’ in As You Like It (Northern Broadsides); ‘She/Her/She/Mother & Other’ in Qweershorts (Queerdog Theatre); ‘Francesca’ in In a Room with Gavin & Francesca (National Theatre Education); two appearances in OutStageUs (Hive North/Hope Mill Theatre 2021/2022); ‘Naomi’ in Home Girl (Derby Theatre); ‘Loz’ in Nicer Than Orange Squash (Decades 1980: Leeds Playhouse).
Short Film credits include: ‘Florence’ in Uncool (BFI/Little Stitch Productions); ‘Ash’ in Six Minutes; ‘Jessie’ in Cat’s Cradle (Knock and Nash); ‘Claire’ in Two Steps Forward (038 Films) and ‘Rose’ in Rose (Izzy Pye).

Joanne McGarva
Lady Macduff - Malcolm
Training: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre credits include: Wendy in Peter Pan at The Grange Theatre, Daphne in Changeling Theatre Company's Present Laughter (UK Tour), Princess Katherine in Henry V (UK Tour), Viola in Twelfth Night with The Duke's Theatre Company (UK Tour), Laura Fairlie/ Anne Catherick in Heady Conduct’s The Woman in White (UK Tour), Hatti in Hatti and Pippa's Christmas Adventure (Hampton Hill Theatre), The Ghost of Christmas Present/Mrs Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (UK Tour), Claire in Love Struck (Arizona,US Tour), Mrs Noah in Noah A Musical Adventure (UK Tour)
Joanne is thrilled to be back after playing Wendy in Peter Pan at The Grange Theatre last Christmas!

Mark Peachey
Duncan - Porter
Theatre credits include: Julius Caesar (UK Tour), Aladdin (Fairfield Halls, Croydon), In Dreams (Leeds Playhouse and Toronto), The Wizard of Oz (Leicester Curve), Dear Evan Hansen (Noel Coward, West End), Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre), Moll Flanders (Colchester Mercury Theatre), Legally Blonde (UK and Ireland Tour), Richard III (Leicester Curve), Mamma Mia! (UK Tour), A Streetcar Named Desire (Leicester Curve), The Lion King (UK and Ireland Tour), We’re Going On A Bear Hunt (UK Tour and Hong Kong), The Prince Of The Pagodas (Royal Opera House), Sleeping Beauty (Bournemouth Pavilion), Mr Stink (UK Tour), The Comedy of Errors (Oddsocks, UK and Hungary), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK and Ireland Tour), Snow White (Prince of Wales, Cannock), Twelfth Night (Bloomsbury Theatre), The Gruffalo (Duchess, Criterion and UK tour), Cinderella (Malvern Theatre), The Tempest (Young Shakespeare Company), Stuart Little (UK Tour), Jack and The Beanstalk (Wyvern Theatre, Swindon). Workshops include: My Beautiful Laundrette and An Officer and a Gentleman.
Television credits include: Jordan Cooper in Hollyoaks (Channel 4), Books That Made Britain and Inside Out (both BBC).
Film credits include: Alex in The Moor (Bulldog Film), Clayton Kendall in Cyberlante (Raya Films) and Dick Mann in Art is Dead (Inky Blue Productions).
Mark has performed at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Olivier awards, and has recorded numerous audiobooks.
Twitter/Instagram: @bigfatpeach

Ben Simon
Macduff
Training: The Oxford School of Drama
Credits include:
Swing/Resident Director (The Baddies - Freckle Productions/The Edinburgh Royal Lyceum - World Premier and UK Tour), Captain Hook/Mr Darling (The Grange Theatre), Jacques/Oliver/Company Stage Manager (As You Like It - The Duke’s Theatre Company), Wolf/Narrator (Little Red Riding Hood - Birmingham Rep), Orsino/Sir Toby Belch (Twelfth Night - The Duke’s Theatre Company), Demetrius and Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream- The Duke’s Theatre Company), Sebastian and Music Captain (Tempest - Wildcard Theatre), Mercutio and Caplulet (Romeo and Juliet - The Dukes Theatre Company), Squire Trelawny/Blind Pew (Treasure Island - Bolton Octagon), Jamie (Catch of the Day- Red Fox Theatre), Paul (Electrolyte - Wildcard Theatre - Original Cast - UK Tour), Henry V (Rose Playhouse), Dunsinane (Royal Shakespeare Company/National Theatre of Scotland).
As Musical Director and Composer - “Lilith, Confessions of a Demon Goddess” (Damsel Productions), Evelyn (R&D - Wildcard Theatre), Cymbeline (Gloucestershire University).
Ben is delighted to be returning to The Grange as Assistant Director and Macduff for this production.
