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At the other place, which was just a shed then. its a theatre now, but it was just a shed. i always said that the sound was by god, because there was an enormous gust of wind under the door during the sleepwalking, and all i had was a candle. and the candle kind of would... it was very, very helpful! the candle did a lot of the acting for me during the sleepwalking. laughs heres the smell of the blood... ..still! all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this... ..little. .. ..hand.

Sobs, wheezes wails it was so exciting, though, because, you know, the audience was in there, as you are. mmm. so you had to be on the ball a bit. this is regarded as a landmark production now, directed by trevor nunn, and ian mckellen as macbeth. how much, when you when you take on a role like that, are you setting out to give a new fresh interpretation of lady macbeth? no, i think that would be fatal. you have to just think, "im going to play this "to the best of my ability, with the best of m...

British council. right. the british council said, would we go? because macbeth, twelfth night, and arms and the man were the set books for these young people, the children in nigeria, ghana, sierra leone. would we go and perform them? it was an experience ill never, ever, everforget. ever. everything that rhymed made everybody laugh a lot. so "the thane of fife had a wife" used to bring the house down. absolutely... imean... oh, god. but that sort of performance, that sort of tour, taking it, as...

Long time ago, when my brother peter played duncan at st peters school. macbeth. and i was taken... yeah. and he walked in and said, "what bloody man is that?" and i thought, "this is for me, this is absolutely for me." and then we went to stratford, when i was still bent on being a designer, and saw michael redgrave as lear. and it was the most incredible set, which was a great, huge, flat circle. and in the middle was a pile of stones which turned, so there could be a cave or a throne or anyth...

Mmm. and he was able to somehow say it in a way that we use today, colloquially. mmm. we dont know that we do it so often, i think. its just occurred to me, ive said the word "macbeth" several times in your house. thats ok with you, is it? oh, yes. the next role that id like to talk about is another powerful, tragic woman — cleopatra in antony and cleopatra. and you played opposite anthony hopkins... idid. ..in a peter hall—directed production at the national theatre in 1987. ive read that y...

Under their two-day long initiative, titled “Natyacharya Selim Al Deen Smaran Utsab”, they will stage two of their most popular shows, “Chitrangada” and “Macbeth” on January 13 and 14 respectively, at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.

Ralph Fiennes and David Tennant take Shakespeare’s psychodrama along divergent paths in two simultaneously running shows.

Max Webster’s production is so chilling and exhilarating that watching it is like discovering the play for the first time

THE CHATHAMS - More than 100 senior citizens attended the traditional dinner to celebrate the opening night of Chatham High School’s performance of “Macbeth” on Thursday, Nov. 16.

The First Folio was published in November 1623, Shakespeare's plays collected and bound by colleagues after his death. The world owes them profound gratitude. By Warwick McFadyen