If It Were Done

Synopsis
A short film with a contemporary setting based on scenes 1 and 7 from Act 1 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The meeting with the three wishes takes place in a garage while the scene in which the Macbeth’s plan Duncan’s murder takes place in a country house. The film concludes with the scene’s celebrated final line, ‘False face must hide what the false heart doth
know.'
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Film
Technical information
Colour / Sound
Year of release
2022
Duration
12 mins

Credits

Director
Will Poole
Producer
Carey Thring
Cinematographer
Ben Manwaring
Writer
Carey Thring
Editor
Duncan Thomsen
Music
Sarah Hezen
Cast
Carey ThringMacbeth
Kate IsittLady Macbeth
Nick WaringBanquo
Alicia CharlesWitch (1st)
Claire-Maria FoxMurderer (2nd)
Mark FletcherKing Duncan
Sarah DorsettDuncan’s consort (Gentlewoman)

Additional Details

Production type
Fiction Films
Historical period
Contemporary
Plays
Macbeth
Subjects
Drama; Shakespeare

Notes

Notes
Initial location filming in Hertfordshire undertaken in 2017.
General
Also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LAJTfAb7a6E

Online Availability

Online URL
https://vimeo.com/710555482
Online format
Streamed

Production Company

Name

Falconbrook

Distributor

Name

Vimeo

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YouTube

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How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "If It Were Done". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av79848 (Accessed 26 Dec 2024)