January 2019
Finally!
The long-awaited DVD of Macbeth is available on this first day of February!
If you have
been living in a dark cave without phone, internet and television, here's what
you've missed: our dear Christopher Eccleston has gone back to his first love
in the field of acting and is showing his impressing skills on stage.
For the
first time in his long career, he made his debuts on the stage of the famous
Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as the leading role of
Macbeth, a brand new and modern version produced by Polly Findlay - who also
was behind Antigone back in 2012!
The
rehearsals started in January last year and the first performance was set in
March. The play was in Stratford from March to September and moved to the
Barbican Centre in London in October. The last performance happened on January
18. A whole year of playing Macbeth and improving both the play and his own
acting skills.
Recording
during a performance in April 2018 and broadcast in all the schools and cinemas
across the United Kingdom, the footage is finally available for everyone all
around the globe. The DVD includes the whole play as performed by the crew all
along its course and some bonuses such as an interview with Niamh Cusack - who
is playing Lady Macbeth - and a short movie entitled Who is Lady Macbeth?. You
can order the DVD on the official website of the Royal Shakespeare Company or
find it in their store in Stratford-upon-Avon if you're lucky enough to live
around there.
’Something
wicked this way comes...’
Returning
home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heath.
Driven by their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the path to murder.
This
contemporary production of Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks
both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of Niamh Cusack to the
Company.
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