David Tennant to play Macbeth to mark Donmar's 30th birthday

David Tennant volition play Macbeth arsenic portion of the 30th day celebrations of London theatre the Donmar Warehouse.

The caller accumulation of Macbeth volition beryllium directed by Max Webster and tally for 10 weeks from 8 December.

Tennant said the imaginable of playing Macbeth was "daunting and humbling, but astir of all, thrilling".

The 52-year-old is nary alien to Shakespeare, having antecedently appeared successful productions of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II and Romeo and Juliet.

The Donmar's creator manager Michael Longhurst said helium was "so excited to witnesser David Tennant's portrayal" of Macbeth.

Tennant said: "The archetypal Shakespeare I ever work was Macbeth. It's a play that has haunted maine for arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember.

"To beryllium playing this part, successful the unsocial and intimate Donmar Warehouse, directed by the superb Max Webster is daunting and humbling, but astir of all... thrilling."

Macbeth volition people the decision of the 30th day play of the Donmar, a prestigious theatre successful London's Covent Garden, which is is presently staging Noël Coward's Private Lives.

The theatre was primitively opened by the Royal Shakespeare Company successful 1977, earlier the radical moved to the Barbican successful 1982.

It was acquired by Roger Wingate successful 1990, who rebuilt and redesigned the venue. It opened arsenic the Donmar Warehouse successful 1992 with Sam Mendes arsenic its archetypal creator director.

As portion of the Donmar's day season, the venue volition besides signifier the European premiere of Clyde's and embark connected a schools' circuit of Henry V.

Clyde's, written by Pulitzer victor Lynn Nottage, volition unfastened connected 13 October. It antecedently played successful Broadway's Hayes theatre and was nominated for 4 Tony Awards.

The play is acceptable successful a run-down Pennsylvania motortruck halt and follows the formerly incarcerated staff, who effort to make the cleanable sandwich, nether the tyrannical oculus of their brag Clyde.

The Donmar's accumulation of Henry V volition circuit schools successful London, reaching up to 3,000 young radical successful Camden and Westminster, with performances offered escaped of charge.

Tennant is the 2nd large histrion successful the abstraction of a week to denote helium volition play Macbeth, pursuing Ralph Fiennes.