How Peter O'Toole was struck by the curse of Macbeth Inflatable sets, Brian Blessed and a literal blood bath – behind the scenes of the car-crash production that stalked the star to his grave 6 March 2021 • 3:44pm 'Is this a disaster I see before me?': Peter O'Toole as Macbeth, 1980 Credit: Lesly HAMILTON/Gamma-Rapho The critic Sheridan Morley once described leaving the Old Vic at the end of its 1980 Macbeth and overhearing two audience members on their way out. “One of them turned to his friend and said: ‘Well all I hope now is that the dog has not been sick in the car.’ I thought that was the best review of that production I’d ever heard.”