Filter - Reinventing The Classics

Filter were formed in 2003 by actors Oliver Dimsdale and Ferdy Roberts and composer Tim Phillips, and produced their debut show, Faster, the same year.

Other original works by Filter include Silence, with the Lyric Hammersmith's then director David Farr in 2007, and Water, again with Farr at the RSC.

Filter have produced two Shakespeare plays prior to Macbeth: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night. Both were directed by Sean Holmes, who has also collaborated with Filter on versions of other classic plays, including Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Chekhov's Three Sisters.

Filter's Macbeth was first seen at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol, who are co-producers of this current tour.