Seven schoolgirls in tartan skirts summon Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy in an empty lot. What could go wrong?
On an autumn afternoon, in an empty lot outside the city, seven girls meet up to do a play. School uniform tartan transforms in this American urban wasteland. The girls are witches, ghosts, and kings. They hurl headlong into the unchecked passions of Macbeth—in Shakespeare’s original text—as the line between real life and blood fantasy quickly blurs. Through prophecies and smartphones, unexpected resonances emerge from Shakespeare’s dark nightmare of ambition gone awry. These young women discover what's done cannot be undone.
Acting
Fuhrman's Macbeth channels terrifying teenage desperation
Direction
Schmidt's staging makes the wasteland feel haunted before they start
Production
Smartphones and prophecies collide in genuinely unsettling ways
Director
Erica Schmidt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Erica Schmidt originally developed this as a stage production with her husband Peter Dinklage, relocating Macbeth to a punk-rock dive bar before reimagining it with an all-female cast of young women.
The film deliberately blurs which actress plays which Witch across versions—AnnaSophia Robb and others swap roles, suggesting the Weird Sisters as interchangeable collective menace rather than individuals.
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