DO your children want to know more about the famous Bard?

William Shakespeare's notorious Scottish play – Macbeth – gets the Shakespeare4Kidz treatment this autumn when the touring theatre company visits Grimsby Auditorium.

Spokeswoman Di Eccleston said: "It's full of weird witches and spooky spells that make Harry Potter and his friends look like amateurs. There are bloody battles, gruesome ghosts and even a forest that moves.

"Because many theatre folk believe the play to be jinxed, lots of celebrities have been sending the company good luck wishes, including Stephen Fry, King of the Jungle Joe Pasquale and West End actor Jonathan Pryce, who had his own bad luck stories to tell after playing Macbeth.

He said: "Shakespeare4Kidz plays use the most famous lines from the original texts, weave them into modern language, add some songs and dances into the mix and the result is a two hour entertainment which everyone – even the youngest primary kids – can understand.

"The plot is retained and all the major characters are there too, to tell the blood-soaked story of the murderous Scottish warrior who, egged on by the prophecies of three weird witches and the ambitions of his evil wife, removes every obstacle in his path until he can seize the throne for himself."

Macbeth is being performed at the Auditorium at 10.30am and 1.30pm on Monday, September 28. Tickets cost £16 from the box office in person, on 0844 847 2426 or at www.grimsbyauditorium.org.uk