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Macbeth
Murder most foul as Harriet Walter and Antony Sher star in the RSC's modern production from London's Roundhouse theatre
Cast
Antony Sher
Harriet Walter
Joseph O'Conor
Ken Bones
Nigel Cooke
John Dougall
Paul Webster
Director
Gregory Doran
The Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed, specially-filmed version of Gregory Doran's 1999 production, starring Antony Sher and Harriet Walter.
The RSC's Macbeth was universally lauded as the finest production of 'The Scottish Play' for over a quarter of a century when it opened at the Swan Theatre in 1999. This is a specially-filmed version, shot on location at London's Roundhouse, which uses handheld documentary style to achieve a raw, intimate and energetic interpretation. The ever-popular study of a flawed hero's disintegration into moral decay is relayed in detail, the camera style conveying the sense of edgy complicity found Macbeth's monologues in the theatre, and is a thrilling vision of one of Shakespeare's most filmic plays.
Antony Sher
Harriet Walter
Joseph O'Conor
Ken Bones
Nigel Cooke
John Dougall
Paul Webster
Director
Gregory Doran
The Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed, specially-filmed version of Gregory Doran's 1999 production, starring Antony Sher and Harriet Walter.
The RSC's Macbeth was universally lauded as the finest production of 'The Scottish Play' for over a quarter of a century when it opened at the Swan Theatre in 1999. This is a specially-filmed version, shot on location at London's Roundhouse, which uses handheld documentary style to achieve a raw, intimate and energetic interpretation. The ever-popular study of a flawed hero's disintegration into moral decay is relayed in detail, the camera style conveying the sense of edgy complicity found Macbeth's monologues in the theatre, and is a thrilling vision of one of Shakespeare's most filmic plays.