Indira Varma of ‘Game of Thrones’ is scheming once more as Lady Macbeth

Indira Varma is known for her roles in “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and “Game of Thrones” but has gotten steady work onstage delivering the words of William Shakespeare, Harold Pinter, Anton Chekhov and Noël Coward. As Indira Varma can attest, inhabiting Lady Macbeth eight times a week — in a production spanning four cities and five months, no less — is a gratifying but taxing affair.

Ever entranced by theater’s ephemeralness, Varma has never gone long without circling back to the stage. After starring in “Macbeth” in Liverpool, Edinburgh and London alongside Fiennes, the Olivier Award winner has arrived in D.C. with the rest of the cast for the production’s final leg, which is being mounted by Shakespeare Theatre Company at the former Black Entertainment Television studios in Brentwood.

While Varma’s mother and father were artists — a graphic designer and illustrator, respectively — they were more inclined to take her to concerts, dance performances and physical theater productions than traditionally staged plays. Thus, Varma initially dreamed of training as a mime over becoming an actor.“That was the universal language,” she says. “You didn’t need words. So it’s ironic that I’m now doing Shakespeare.

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