Macbeth

Synopsis: Video recording, using a single fixed camera, of Tim Albery’s 1996 production of Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Roger Allam and Brid Brennan are the Macbeths.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 15 May 1996
Duration: 147 mins

History: Produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 16 May-5 October 1996; and at the Barbican, London, 31 October 1996-27 March 1997.
Reviews: Jackson, Russell. Shakespeare Quarterly 48 (1997), pp. 208-15 (in review-article); Smallwood, Robert. Shakespeare Survey 50 (1997), pp. 201-24 (especially 207-11). Shuttleworth, Ian. Financial Times (London) 22 May 1996. Shuttleworth writes: ‘This production is more sterile than any of those, including the Mark Rylance farrago. Those who do not know the play will be put off by it: those who do will be bored to distraction. It is full of light, half full of sound, quite devoid of fury and signifies less than nothing’.

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

Roger Allam	Macbeth
Brid Brennan	Lady Macbeth
Colum Convey	Macduff
Sebastian Harcombe	Malcolm
Philip Quast	Banquo
Adrian Schiller	Porter
Andrew Hesker	Seyton
Arthur Cox	King Duncan
Arthur Cox	Doctor of Physic
Brian Abbott	Siward, Earl of Northumberland
Brian Abbott	Doctor (English)
David Fahm	Lennox
David Pullan	Angus
Edward Wilson	Fleance
Griffith Jones	Old Man
Janet Chappell	Lady Macduff
Janet Chappell	Witch
Janet Whiteside	Witch
John Rake	Murderer (1st)
Michael Hales	Macduff’s son
Robert Demeger	Ross
Sam Wood (2)	Macduff’s son
Simeon Dafoe	Murderer (2nd)
Simon Westwood	Donalbain
Simon Westwood	Young Siward
Stephen Billington	Captain
Susannah Elliott-Knight	Witch
William Belchambers	Fleance

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