Macbeth

Synopsis: Video recording of the production of Macbeth directed for stage by Moises Kaufman and for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker. Liev Schreiber is Macbeth and Jennifer Ehle is Lady Macbeth.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 6 Jul 2006
Duration: 120 mins

Textual information: The script is based on the Oxford edition, edited by Nicholas Brooke.
The New York Public Library’s Performing Arts Research Collections has a typescript, dated June 5, 2006. Some speeches have been shortened by the director or dramaturg, particularly those of Ross, Malcolm, and Macduff. Heavily marked with coloured ink by the videographer.
Reviews: Isherwood, Charles ‘Macbeth’ in the Park: Where Fair Is Foul and War Still Hell’ in The New York Times (29 June 2006). " As played by Liev Schreiber and Jennifer Ehle, Shakespeare’s Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth are two camera-ready beauties glistening in the world’s gaze, Brad and Angelina granting interviews in iambic pentameter’ .[Isherwood].

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