What if Macbeth ran a Glasgow restaurant and James McAvoy was hungry for more than Michelin stars?
A chef and his restaurant-hostess wife resort to murder to take ownership of a high-class Glaswegian restaurant.
Acting
McAvoy's descent from charming chef to unhinged murderer is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Brozel turns a restaurant into a pressure cooker of paranoia and steam.
Writing
Modern dialogue that somehow keeps Shakespeare's rhythmic dread intact.
Director
Mark Brozel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was part of BBC's 'ShakespeaRe-Told' series, with four plays modernized — McAvoy later said he based Joe's physicality on Gordon Ramsay's kitchen rage.
The Glasgow setting wasn't just flavor: 2005 Scotland was obsessed with culinary prestige, making Joe's ambition feel culturally specific rather than abstract. The 'three witches' become garbage men who predict his rise — class commentary served cold.
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