Macbeth

Alternative title: The Shakespeare Plays
Synopsis: Television production of the play with Nicol Williamson and Jane Lapotaire as the Macbeths.
Series: BBC Television Shakespeare
Language: English
Country: Great Britain; United States
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 22 Jun 1982
Transmission details: 5 Nov 1983 at 21:00 (Channel: BBC2)
Duration: 150 mins

Director

Jack Gold

Producer

Writer

Music

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Cast

Nicol Williamson	Macbeth
Jane Lapotaire	Lady Macbeth
Tony Doyle	Macduff
James Hazeldine	Malcolm
Ian Hogg	Banquo
Alistair Henderson	Fleance
Anne Dyson	Witch (3rd)
Barry Lowe	Murderer (1st)
Brenda Bruce	Witch (1st)
Christopher Ellison	Captain
Christopher Fulford	Second Messenger (Messenger)
Christopher Reich	Murderer (2nd)
Crispin Mair	Macduff’s son
David Lyon	Angus
Denyse Alexander	Gentlewoman
Eamon Boland	Seyton
Eileen Way	Witch (2nd)
Gawn Grainger	Ross
Gordon Kane	First Messenger (Messenger)
Gordon Kane	Servant
James Bolam	Porter
Jill Baker	Lady Macduff
John Rowe	Lennox
John Woodnutt	Scottish Doctor (Doctor of Physic)
Mark Lindsay	Fifth Murderer (Murderer)
Matthew Long	Menteith
Nicholas Coppin	Young Siward
Peter Porteous	Caithness
Philip Dunbar	Murderer (3rd)
Rodney Cardiff	Fourth Murderer (Murderer)
Tom Bowles	Donalbain
Will Leighton	Old Man
William Abney	Siward, Earl of Northumberland

Production type: Television and Radio Drama
Historical period: Medieval
Plays: Macbeth
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: drama in English; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Television drama
Related items: Macbeth; Macbeth

Notes: The production is commercially available on DVD as part of the BBC TV SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION box set (see separate entry). The VHS version was deleted in March 2004.
History: This production was part of the sixth series (producer: Shaun Sutton). Recording took one week.
Textual information: Between 1978 and 1986 the BBC published individual scripts of the series. Each volume of The BBC TV Shakespeare, ed. Peter Alexander et al. (London: British Broadcasting Corporation) contains the full text of the play (the Peter Alexander edition) with accompanying notes on the scene breaks and cuts made in the production, as well as a glossary. A general introduction to the play by series literary advisor John Wilders is followed by an essay on the production of the play by Henry Fenwick. This is based on interviews with actors, directors, and designers.
Reviews: Susan Willis, The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).

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