Macbeth
- Synopsis
- Video recording of Peter Gill’s 1971 production of Macbeth for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Ian Hogg and Pat Galloway are the Macbeths.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Recording date
- 9 Jun 1971
Credits
- Director
- Peter Gill
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Music
- Alan Laing
- Production Design
- Deirdre Clancy
- Costume
- Deirdre Clancy
- Cast
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario
- Theatre company
- Shakespeare (Stratford) Theatre Company
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Historical period
- No period
- Plays
- Macbeth
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- History
- The production played in repertoire June 9-16 October 1971.
- Stills
- ` ... Among those ideas was the notion that Macbeth’s Scotland must be presented as a tribal society. Thus Duncan always appeared with his thanes clustered about him like Indian braves around their chief in a Western movie. This conceit was enhanced by draping the thanes in what appeared to be Navajo Indian blankets, and by having them dine seated around something very like the floor of an Aztec temple. I suppose the designer, Miss Deirdre Clancy, must take some responsibility for these inventions, and also for the costumes of the "poor people" and the riot police, as well as Lady Macbeth’s bare feet and homespun gowns. Taken together, these seemed to me to constitute a set of stupefying incongruities, and I am at a loss to explain them’ {Berners W. Jackson, op cit].
- Reviews
- Jackson, Berners W. Shakespeare Quarterly 22 (1971): 368-70. Jackson comments: ‘It seems to have occurred to him [Gill] that Shakespeare, in writing Macbeth, did not give us the whole picture’.
Archive
- Name
Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival Archive
- Contact
- ECharendoff@stratfordshakespearefestival.com (Archives Co-ordinator)
- Web
- https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/AboutUs/OurHistory/ArchivesServices External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +1 519-271 1040
- Fax
- +1 519-271-1040
- Address
- 350 Douro Street
P.O. Box 520
55 Queen Street
Stratford, Ontario
N5A 3S7
Canada
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Macbeth". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av70572 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)