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
Notes: Initial location filming in Hertfordshire undertaken in 2017.
Subjects: Drama; Shakespeare