"Great Performances" Macbeth (2010)

Director:

Rupert Goold

Writer:

William Shakespeare (by)

TV Series:

"Great Performances" (1970)

Original Air Date:

6 October 2010 (Season 39, Episode 3)

Genre:

Drama | Music | Musical

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Shakespeare's Macbeth | Witch | Murder | Regicide | Blood On Hand

Awards:

1 nomination

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
Niamh McGrady	...	Witch
Bill Nash	...	Angus
Christopher Patrick Nolan	...	The Porter
Mark Rawlings	...	Lennox
Paul Shelley	...	Duncan
Tim Treloar	...	Ross
Martin Turner	...	Banquo

Directed by
Rupert Goold

Writing credits
William Shakespeare		(by)

Produced by
Mark Bell	....	executive producer
Sebastian Grant	....	co-producer
David Horn	....	executive producer
John Wyver	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Adam Cork

Cinematography by
Sam McCurdy

Film Editing by
Trevor Waite

Art Direction by
James Hendy
James Wakefield

Costume Design by
Mike O'Neill

Makeup Department
Andrea Illes	....	makeup artist
Kristyan Mallett	....	prosthetics designer
Lucybelle Thompson	....	makeup artist
Deanne Turner	....	makeup designer
Issy Webley	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Jennie Fava	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Carlos Fidel	....	second assistant director
Natalie Malla	....	third assistant director
Richard Styles	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Callum Andrews	....	construction manager
Blair Barnette	....	scenic artist
Lynne Benelick	....	props
Tim Hewitt	....	art department runner
Lizzie Kilham	....	standby art director
Katie Lock	....	art department runner
Simon Marsay	....	art department runner
Nikhil McDuff	....	art department runner
Verity Sadler	....	assistant art director
Kate Thomas	....	production buyer

Sound Department
Adrian Bell	....	sound recordist
Paul Davies	....	sound editor
James Gibb	....	boom operator
Mark Norgate	....	adr recordist
Peter Shaw	....	sound effects editor
Andrew Stirk	....	supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer

Special Effects by
Sion Penny	....	titles design
Anna Lind Sævarsdóttir	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
James Cundill	....	visual effects artist
Asa Shoul	....	digital colorist

Stunts
Terry King	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Sergio Bernuzzi	....	grip
Dan Carling	....	digital imaging technician
Gary Chaisty	....	gaffer
Mark Day	....	best boy
Jess Doxey	....	camera trainee
Rodrigo Gutierrez	....	camera operator
John Heald	....	grip
Phil Humphries	....	first assistant camera
Mark Jenkinson	....	electrician
Stefan R. Krzysiak	....	second assistant camera
Owen Richards	....	electrician
John Taylor	....	steadicam operator
Matthew Waving	....	first assistant camera: b-cam

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Jessica Allen	....	costume assistant
Katerina Pesulova	....	costume assistant

Editorial Department
Sion Penny	....	on-line editor

Other crew
Blair Barnette	....	runner
Peter Hancock	....	runner
Mick Hurrell	....	health and safety
Zoe Morgan	....	script supervisor
Ali Payne-James	....	floor runner
Kate Selby	....	floor runner
Yoni Smith	....	post production coordinator

Fred Rose
Barbara Walsh

Directed by
John Doyle
John Glenmeister		(episode "Man Who Married a French Wife, the")
Nick Havinga		(episode "Girls in Their Summer Dresses") (episode "Monument, The")

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Marion J. Caffey		creator
Daniel Ezralow		creator
Josh Groban		creator

Production Companies

• Illuminations

Distributors

• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (2010) (UK) (TV)
• Gravitas Ventures (2010) (USA) (video) (VOD)
• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) (2010) (USA) (TV) (for "Great Performances")

Other Companies

• 4K London  red camera work flow

Runtime:

160 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:12 (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

Welbeck Abbey, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Illuminations

Trivia:

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

Movie Connections:

Featured in 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2011) (TV)

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.