This is Macbeth reimagined as a supernatural-themed action movie for the stage, a high-speed entertainment with explosions and gunplay and plenty of special effects. Macbeth and his fellow Scots scamper about in fatigues, flak jackets, and modern full-dress uniforms, accompanied by relentless blaring music. Battles are waged in the foyers of derelict office towers. Prisoners are tortured according to the most contemporary methods. The castle of the unworthy Thane resembles a luxurious bunker, the natural lair of a charismatic villain.

What better stage vehicle for Jai Courtney, the star of such Hollywood explosion compilations as Suicide Squad (2016) and A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)? And, in fact, Courtney is a pretty compelling Macbeth. A real Thug of Cawdor – in his muscle tee, as whole as the marble, founded as the rock, as broad and general as the casing air – he crashes through the part like a scowling cannonball, or some other more annihilating munition. He gets better, more energetic, the further Macbeth is stepped in blood: the more perfect Macbeth’s evil, the more natural Courtney seems, the more fluent and expressive and self-possessed.