TIME travel and the Scottish play … you might not think a time-travelling romantic series of novels and television adaptations, one of Scotland’s best-known actors making his Royal Shakespeare Company debut and a comedy about three school-kids have much in common. But the clue is in the heading – the Scottish play, as you have never seen it, coming to the Marine Theatre at Lyme Regis on Saturday 4th October.

Just Macbeth!, performed by Our Star Theatre Co, is a show for Shakespeare lovers and sceptics alike, for all those people who found the Bard impenetrable when they were at school, and those for whom life and the theatre without Shakespeare is unimaginable.

Journey to medieval Scotland for this introduction to the great tragedy of ambition that turns into murderous obsession. The story of Just Macbeth! follows three school students, Andy, Danny and Lisa, as they prepare their homework presentation: an extract featuring the three witches. On reciting their lines and concocting their potion, they are transported back to medieval Scotland!

(And in case you need the riddle unpicked – the novels are the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, adapted by Starz in seven hugely popular seasons, starring Caitriona Balfe as the time-travelling heroine Claire, and Sam Heughan, who plays her 18th century Highland warrior husband and is about to take the title role as Macbeth at the RSC in Stratford on Avon.)