This production of Macbeth starring Michael Redgrave (1908-1985) at the Royal Court Theatre Liverpool was part of a regional tour before the production company brought the play into the Aldwych Theatre, London, in December. Liverpool was well-served for London productions that year, and the following week's play was a post-London tour of Cocteau's intellectual Ruritanian melodrama The Eagle Has Two Heads from the Theatre Royal Haymarket starring Eileen Herlie (1918-2008). She made her career overnight as the Queen when the play was first produced at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in 1946, performing the sensational 21 minute speech by candlelight which was thought at the time to be the longest speech in the history of the stage.

This poster, and a hanging card and programme, were kept by the actor Richard Bebb (1927-2006) as a souvenir of his professional debut as one of the Watchmen at Dunsinane. He is credited here with his original name Richard Bebb Williams, which he later changed, using his mother's name Bebb as his surname since there was another actor at the time called Richard Williams.