Ralph Fiennes, the actor who played He Who Must Not Be Named, will appear in the play that must not be named (inside the theater, at least) in D.C. next year. That’s right, the actor who portrayed the Harry Potter villain and so many other roles will appear as the title character in Macbeth at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C.

He will be joined by Indira Varma (who portrayed Ellaria Sand on Game of Thrones) as Lady Macbeth and be directed by STC’s Simon Godwin, the company announced Thursday.

While the play’s name will probably not be spoken in the theater due to longstanding industry superstition around uttering the title of “the Scottish play,” we’re under no such prohibition. For the uninitiated, Shakespeare’s Macbeth is about a Scottish general who receives a prophecy from three witches that he will become the King of Scotland. This tragedy of political ambition follows Macbeth as he commits murder to obtain power — we can easily picture Fiennes as the brooding and homicidal character.

“Macbeth is a play that always carries relevance, but with wars in Ukraine and Sudan — and murderous authoritarian regimes very present in the world, the play seems particularly current,” Fiennes said in a statement. “But Shakespeare’s examination of the MINDS of his protagonists, the intimate nature of this, is what gives the play its brilliant and terrifying focus.”

The actors and the director worked together previously in a production of Man and Superman in London.

“I’m thrilled to be heading back into the rehearsal room with Ralph Fiennes and Simon Godwin exploring Macbeth and Lady M’s fraught relationship and the play’s themes of ambition and corruption which still feel chillingly poignant in our modern world,” Varna said in a statement.

Unfortunately, Potterheads — and everyone else — will have to wait awhile to see the show. The show will tour in the UK first with stops in Liverpool, Edinburgh, and London, and then come to D.C. for its only U.S. appearance. The production is part of STC’s next season, and will run April 2-28, 2024. They’ll also have to shell out some serious cash: Tickets to this production of Macbeth are currently only available to those who purchase a full-season subscription, which start at $324.

This approach isn’t particularly novel — D.C.-area theaters have been using buzzy actors and productions to help boost their full-season or membership sales for several years. The Kennedy Center guaranteed early access to Hamilton tickets to those who purchased memberships in 2018, and The National Theatre even partnered with Kennedy Center to offer subscribers to its own Broadway season access to the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical at Kennedy Center.

Need to get your Shakespeare fix before next year? This weekend is the last weekend to hit up Folger Shakespeare Library’s “Searching for Shakespeare” festival at various venues around the city. Or theater lovers may want to STC’s upcoming production, Here There Are Blueberries — a play about the discovery of Nazi-era photographs prompting a reckoning about a German businessman’s family history — running at Sidney Harman Hall May 7- May 28.