Learning on ScreenLady Macbeth
- Synopsis
- Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuyler, New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday and composer Michelle Assay have looked at the murdering husband and wife of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Chris Harding hosts a discussion about the Macbeth story as interpreted by Akira Kurosawa (Throne of Blood) and Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk); Alice Birch’s 2016 film version, Schuyler’s forthcoming novel Lady Macbethad and Zinnie Harris’ new play, Macbeth (an Undoing).
- Series
- Free Thinking
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Transmission details
- 8 Feb 2023 at 22:00 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
- Duration
- 44 mins
Credits
- Producer
- Ruth Watts
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Plays
- Macbeth
- Subjects
- Drama; Shakespeare
- Keywords
- Macbeth, King of Scots (b? -1057); Adaptation
- Related items
- Kumonosu-Jo
Online Availability
- Online URL
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hnpt
- Online format
- Streamed/Download
Sponsor
- Name
BBC Radio 3
Archive
- Name
BoB
- bob@learningonscreen.ac.uk
- Web
- https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 3743 2345
- Address
- Learning on Screen - the British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council
330 Holborn Gate
1st Floor, Suite 120
London
WC1V 7QH - Notes
- Formerly a service from BUFVC, British Universities Film & Video Council
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