Hra na Makbetha

Alternative title
Play on Macbeth Macbeth Behind Closed Doors Play Macbeth
Synopsis
A version of Macbeth directed by Pavel Kahout and performed by the Living Room Theatre Company. Pavel Landovsky and Vlasta Charmostova are the Macbeths.
Language
Czech
Country
Former Czechoslovakia; Czechoslovakia
Medium
Audio; Television; Video
Technical information
Colour / Sound
Recording date
1978
Duration
75 mins

Credits

Director
Pavel Kohout
Music
Vlastimil Tresnak
Cast
Pavel LandovskyMacbeth
Vlasta CharmostovaLady Macbeth
Pavel KohoutMacduff
Vlastimil TresnaMalcolm
Pavel KohoutBanquo
Pavel KohoutKing Duncan
Pavel KohoutDonalbain
Pavel KohoutMurderer (1st)
Teresa KohoutovaLady Macduff
Teresa KohoutovaWitch (2nd)
Vlasta CharmostovaWitch (1st)
Vlastimil TresnaCaptain
Vlastimil TresnaWitch (3rd)
Vlastimil TresnaRoss
Vlastimil TresnaMurderer (2nd)

Additional Details

Theatre company
Living Room Theatre Company
Production type
Stage Recordings
Plays
Macbeth
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

General
The Czech novelist, playwright, and poet Pavel Kohout was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, most active in the 1950s, a Prague Spring exponent and dissident in 1970s until he was expelled to Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement. Because he and other dissident theatre workers had been banned from working in the official theatre, he formed the company Living-Room Theatre with the actors Pavel Landovsky, Vlasta Chramostova, Vlastimil Tresnak, and his daughter, Tereza Bouckova to covertly perform an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth in living rooms in Prague. Czech-born playwright, Tom Stoppard’s Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth is inspired by these events.{wikipedia, accessed 10/2007].
History
Produced by Bytove Divadlo (Living Room Theatre), Prague beginning 13 July 1978, at the flat of V. Chramostova and S. Milota, Prague and in other private flats as ‘Macbeth Behind Closed Doors’. An entry for the play in World Shakespeare Bibliography notes that a sound recording was made by Michal Kima and a film recording by Stanislav Milota which was broadcast on television in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. No transmission details have been found (12/2007). A video copy of a stage production, dated 1978, is held by the Arts Institute in Prague at 90 minutes. This may be the performance filmed by Milota.
Textual information
Translated into Czech by E.A. Saudek; adapted by P. Kohout.

Archive

Name

Arts Institute-Theatre Institute

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How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "Hra na Makbetha". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av69378 (Accessed 13 Nov 2024)