It was Christopher Eccleston’s birthday last week, and Big Finish just released the final boxset of The Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 1 — so it feels a good time to look back at the time Eccleston played the titular role in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. And tomorrow (22nd February), it’ll be a year since I interviewed Christopher for the DWC. He was my first Doctor, the man who introduced me to this…

Being granted an interview with Christopher Eccleston would always be a big deal; for a Doctor Who fan who was introduced to the show through the Ninth Doctor, however, it’s doubly so. It’s fair to say that, without Eccleston (alongside many others, notably former showrunner Russell T Davies and ex-producers, Julie Gardner and Phil Collinson), the Doctor Who Companion website wouldn’t be…

Former Doctor Who companion Pearl Mackie will be taking part in a new online initiative to help school age children get their heads around Shakespeare and other key texts. She’ll be joining forces with comedian Joe Lycett, as well as other well known faces, for an online reading of Macbeth organised by ReadThrough. The project aims to support students with their studies through the Covid-19…

Here’s your chance to see Ninth Doctor actor, Christopher Eccleston, in William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, originally recorded at the Barbican Theatre in 2018.

This was Christopher Eccleston’s Royal Shakespeare Company debut and the return of Niamh Cusack (as Lady Macbeth) to the Company. This production of Macbeth was directed by Polly Findlay and designed by Fly Davis.

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It seems strange to think that, until relatively recently, Christopher Eccleston was known as the ‘grumpy Doctor’.

He was the one who dramatically quit after just one season of the show and didn’t really want to be involved in promotional opportunities or appear at conventions. Instead, he wanted to be in the odd Hollywood blockbuster and develop an impressively eclectic CV, acting in the likes of

Over a decade after he left Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston has shone a little more light on the consequences of his departure from the BBC show. Eccleston quit playing the Ninth Doctor after just one series, apparently due to disagreements with the production crew, although the exact circumstances remain unknown. In quite a revealing interview, he said: “What happened around Doctor Who almost…

The problem with reviews of productions of classic plays is that so many reviewers are determined to show how brilliant they are: far more brilliant than the plebs in the audience, far more talented than the director, and far more qualified to mount a better production of the piece than the one they’re actually reviewing. They’re the sort of people who bellow loudly with laughter at horribly…

Is this a Doctor I see before me? The Ninth Doctor himself Christopher Eccleston will play Macbeth in the 2018 summer season for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The ‘Scottish Play’ sees the victorious Macbeth return home from battle, where he meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the path to murder. Following in the footsteps of Tenth Doctor David…