Macbeth

Synopsis: A recording of the stage play which ran from 23 January-8 March 1981 at the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts, New York City and was transmitted by ARTS cable channel on 6 Decembe 1981. Directed for the stage by Sarah Caldwell and for ARTS by Kirk Browning. Philip Anglim and Maureen Anderman are the Macbeths.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 6 Dec 1981 (Channel: ARTS)
Duration: 179 (including commercials)

Notes: Note: The copy held by the Library of Congress has severe audio problems and there is no viewing print (6/2008).

The film was marketed by Films for the Humanities on VHS in the early 1980s but is currently unavailable. Copies are to be found, however, in many US libraries.
Reviews: Charney, Maurice. ‘Shakespeare in NYC’ Shakespeare Quarterly 33 (Summer 1982), p.222.
Of the stage performance Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times (24 January 1981) ‘I don’t know what this actor is up to in ''Macbeth,'' and I doubt that he does, either. In the early scenes, he is so shifty-eyed and bonkers that one expects him to be arrested for suspicion of murder before he actually commits one’.

Philip Anglim	Macbeth
Maureen Anderman	Lady Macbeth
J. Kenneth Campbell	Macduff
John Vickery	Malcolm
Fritz Sperberg	Banquo
Dana Ivey	Gentlewoman
Dana Ivey	Witch
Ellen Gould	Witch
Esquire Jauchem	English soldier
Eugene Pressman	Donalbain
Eugene Pressman	Menteith
Heard Cordis	Witch
Ivar Brogger	Caithness
Ivar Brogger	Murderer
James Hurdle	Ross
Jarlath Conroy	Captain
Jarlath Conroy	Seyton
Jonathan Ward	Macduff’s son
Kelsey Grammer	Lennox
Kevin McClarnon	Angus
Lee Kaiulani	Lady Macduff
Michael Dash	Witch
Neil Vipond	King Duncan
Randy Kovitz	English soldier
Robert Burns	Young Siward
Roy K. Stevens	Porter
Sam Stoneburner	Siward, Earl of Northumberland
William Morrison	Fleance

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