Macbeth (6 Oct. 2010)

Director:

Rupert Goold

Writer:

William Shakespeare (by)

Stars:

Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Oliver Burch

1 nomination.

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Patrick Stewart	...	Macbeth
Kate Fleetwood	...	Lady Macbeth
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Oliver Burch	...	Servant
Suzanne Burden	...	Lady Macduff
Ben Carpenter	...	Donalbain
Hugo Docking	...	Macduff Son
Lillian Dummer	...	Macduff Daughter
Madeleine Dummer	...	Macduff Daughter
Michael Feast	...	Macduff
Polly Frame	...	Witch
Bertie Gilbert	...	Fleance
Scott Handy	...	Malcolm
Sophie Hunter	...	Witch
Hywel John	...	Bloody Sergeant
Christopher Knott	...	Old Siward

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

shakespeare's macbeth | witch | murder | regicide | blood on hand

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Genres:

Drama | Music | Musical

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 October 2010 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Welbeck Abbey, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Illuminations

Technical Specs

Runtime:

160 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Patrick Stewart has twice played Claudius in Hamlet. Like Macbeth, Claudius kills the King to usurp his throne.

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Connections

Version of Macbeth (1916)

User Reviews

A Macbeth like no other

A visually brutal adaptation of a theatrical production that combines the experience of stylized European director's theater with the documentary-film imagery of war, Stalinist totalitarianism, dystopian landscapes. The result is not as much a drama (although the acting itself is riveting) as a series of rapidly-changing tableaux that bring a striking newness to Shakespeare's language. Sir Patrick Stewart performs the role of a lifetime. As a Shakespearian actor, he manipulates Shakespeare's words so that they ring authentically, as if we are hearing them for the first time.

This Macbeth channels the early Polish Roman Polanski, the imaginings of a Stanley Kubrick, the gritty grayness of 1984. It HAD to be shown as a PBS "Great Performances," for I cannot imagine it attracting a commercial audience, or even a film festival one, since it seems more like an brilliant artistic experiment that might have its most successful showing in the context of a museum. It is complex, worthy of endless dissection of words and images. My experience of it had less emotion involvement than fascination with creative process behind the filmmaking.