SIR – After booking our tickets to see Macbeth as soon as the brochure came out, we had been eagerly awaiting our trip to Worcester Cathedral.

What a disappointment. We never imagined that it would not be a traditional rendition in such a setting.

The camouflage uniforms were not to our taste but as the dialogue was unaffected we were prepared to accept this interpretation.

But the three witches were totally out of place. Shakespeare depicted them as crones not vacuous females who would have been more suited to the back streets of Soho.

The first half hour of ‘interplay’ was a total waste of time as their dialogue was unclear and unintelligible, interspersed with swigging from various alcoholic bottles and gyrating to a CD.

Thank goodness Macbeth came up to expectations, he was brilliant – totally believable, as was McDuff.

Both of us are of the opinion that Shakespeare is our greatest playwright and shouldn’t be messed about with. We know that many people shared our views.

From two very disappointed patrons.

Janet and Mike Goodwin

Droitwich