Outlander star Sam Heughan lands iconic role worlds away from hit TV show
OUTLANDER star Sam Heughan has landed an iconic role worlds away from the hit time travel show.
The actor, 45, is to play Macbeth in his debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
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Sam Heughan has landed an iconic role worlds away from Outlander
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The British theatre company has announced its programme of events for 2025/2026, including a raft of plays that will be staged in Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of famous playwright William Shakespeare.
In the RSC's latest version of Macbeth, Scottish actor Heughan, known for playing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser in romance drama Outlander, will star opposite The Day Of The Jackal actress Lia Williams, as Lady Macbeth.
Heughan said: "At age 18, standing on the main stage of the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, playing 'spear-carrier number 2' (essentially a glorified extra) in a production of Macbeth, I could only dream of one day playing the infamous title character.
"It feels full circle to be returning to the stage, after over a decade working primarily in television and film.
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"Not only is Macbeth my favourite Shakespeare play: intense, immediate and unsettling, it also happens to be famously Scottish.
"The RSC has always been at the pinnacle of my ambition and I feel deeply honoured and thankful to be working alongside some enormously talented and creative people.
"The Other Place is the perfect space to create an intense, intimate production and, like Lady M, we will be calling upon the spirits of the RSC's highly acclaimed past productions for their blessing."
David Tennant, Sir Ian McKellen, and Ralph Fiennes are among the actors who have played the famous character who, consumed by greed and power, murders the king to take the Scottish throne for himself.
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The new production will be shown at The Other Place theatre from October 9 to December 6.
Elsewhere, four of Shakespeare's most famous characters have their stories revisited across two performances, also being staged at The Other Place, from January 2026.
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The first performance in All Is But Fantasy explores the story of Lady Macbeth, who is consumed by guilt after plotting to murder King Duncan, and Emilia, a character in tragedy play, Othello.
The second performance looks at the story of Juliet, from tragic romance story Romeo And Juliet, and Richard III, who uses manipulation to become king in the eponymous play.
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Olivier award-winning actor Adrian Lester will play the title role of Cyrano de Bergerac in a new version of Edmond Rostand's play about the novelist and playwright, showing at the Swan Theatre from September 27 to November 15.
Over at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Harry Potter star Alfred Enoch will star as Henry V in a play running from March 14 to April 25 2026.
Other highlights include an 80-minute staging of King Lear and a two-part adaptation of John Galsworthy's novels, The Forsyte Saga, both playing at the Swan Theatre later in the year, with the former also going on tour.
The RSC is also staging plays in the West End and recently announced the UK premiere of Liz Duffy Adams's Born With Teeth, which will play at Wyndham's Theatre, previewing on August 13 with a final performance on November 1.
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The production follows rival playwrights Christopher Marlowe, played by Doctor Who's Ncuti Gatwa, and Shakespeare, played by Killing Eve's Edward Bluemel.
Over in North America, Lolita Chakrabarti's acclaimed stage adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's award-winning novel Hamnet embarks on a three-date tour of the US in Spring 2026.
RSC co-artistic directors Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans said: "From Malawi or Manhattan, through French fields, Scottish heaths, mythical lands and Giant country, our 2025/26 programme celebrates what we believe a 21st Century RSC can and should be: global in ambition and outlook, open and collaborative in nature and continuously redefining how Shakespeare and great storytelling can bring joy, connection and improve our understanding of one-another.
"We are delighted to welcome so many artists in their RSC debuts this season, including internationally renowned acting talents Adrian Lester, Sam Heughan and Lia Williams, playwrights Debris Stevenson, Richy Hughes, Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan, alongside the visionary theatre-makers of tomorrow, Lynette Linton, Simon Evans, Josh Roche and Whitney White to name a few."
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Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'This play addresses those issues in a sidelong way and it's funny and witty. Because it is about what happens when you give power to one person, like Fred Goodwin. 'My job is to get to the root of who people are and why. Because nobody is intrinsically bad. Go into a baby unit and they're all gorgeous. I love babies, toddlers. I think what we do to them is monstrous. We change them, make them into what they shouldn't be. Because it's conditioning that makes you the way you are, and how we condition our children is what's important, teaching them about love, relationships, sharing.' 'That's what the children from Succession suffer from, a belligerent, strong father who never really gave them love, so they've never been given a perspective on who they are. It's not Logan's fault, because he's also had demons to deal with. There's one scene where he goes swimming and we see scars on his back and it's never explained but shows he's been through something horrific, been brutalised, and that's what makes him behave in an off-hand and brutal manner. Brutalised children do not make good men because they carry that with them.' 'That's what's fascinating about my job, which is to look at why we're not evolved. Why do we make these decisions about what we should do with our lives.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad For his part, Cox's own credo is 'live your life and understand and appreciate what's coming at you'. 'That's what I think the theatre is. For me, it's the one true church and its belief system is about human beings. How do we tick? What are our influences? What takes us down the wrong or right path?' 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He laughs. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad I don't ask him to tell me to do this, although tempted, as I have more questions, including what is it with him and the word f***? He says it when he comes on stage in Make It Happen too. 'I do. I say 'where the f*** am I?' And Adam says 'Good God, I never used such language. I never used such blasphemy.' He chuckles. Unlike the brutalised men Cox talks about, in his autobiography Putting The Rabbit in the Hat he says after therapy as an adult he realised that despite a traumatic childhood where the death of his father through pancreatic cancer when he was eight plunged the family into poverty and his mother into illness, he was very much loved by his mother and the sisters and brother who cared for him. Does he think being loved is key to how we turn out? 'Yes. I do think care and love is the key. And we're so ignorant. We really don't know how to father or mother our kids. 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And Titus Andronicus at Stratford in the Eighties, was really important for me. And I enjoyed playing Churchill, because I thought I got that right. It's a character performance. The other thing I'm very proud of is a film called The Escapist, which I did in 2008 and produced as well, with Rupert Wyatt. 'I've enjoyed myself, you know. There's nothing I've regretted doing. Je ne regrette rien. I don't go in for regrets. When I commit, I commit.' Looking ahead, there's the release of his directorial debut with Glenrothan, a film set in Scotland, in which he also stars with Alan Cumming as his brother. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'I made my first film in Scotland last year, working with an all Scottish crew and cast and I realised how much talent's here and doesn't get acknowledged. I think I'm only acknowledged because I'm a Dundonian and not a Glaswegian or from Edinburgh so we're like a rare beast you only see on certain occasions. 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CREDIT: Make It Happen, Dundee Rep Theatre until Saturday 26 July and Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, 30 July to 9 August. Tickets,
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