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Three witches meet the noble warlord Macbeth and prophesy that he will become king.

I just learned everything about how to kind of present myself in that musical. # hush up don't tell mama # shush up don't tell mama # don't tell mama, whatever you do # if you had a secret # you bet i could keep it # i would never tell on you... # i would never tell on you... # you took on many roles throughout the 1970s, and i think one of the greatest roles would have been in macbeth, with ian mckellen. at the other place, which was just a shed then. it's 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 ...

And i knew that there was a laugh in a line that cleopatra said, and i tried, for 99 performances... ..to get the laugh. and on the 100th, i got the laugh. i'm going to come back to antony and cleopatra. you'd already played lady macbeth, hadn't you, i think 10, 12 years earlier in... africa. west africa. ..a tour of west african countries? yes. we did... where'd you go? ghana, sierra leone... ? ghana, sierra leone and nigeria. and we were the very, very first lot to go. and that was british council? british council. right. the british council said, would we go? because macbeth, twelfth night,...

�*darest thou cassius, now; "�*leap in with me in to this angry flood "and swim to yonder point?”' and we'd go, "oh, jeff!" we'd be going... but it would go on for five minutes! jeff actually went to the rsc, didn't he? he certainly did. did he lead the way for you in that way? well, i expect he certainly did. but i was taken to stratford, by my parents again, in...in... ..in1953, i think. and that would have been the very first shakespeare that you saw? no! oh, no. i'd seen shakespeare a long, long time ago, when my brother peter played duncan at st peter's school. macbeth. and i was ta...

Of the blood... ..still! all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this... ..little. .. ..hand. she sobs, wheezes she wails she sobs, wheezes she wails it was so exciting, though, because, you know, the audience was in there, as you are. mm. 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. this is regarded as a landmark production now, directed by trevor nunn, and ian mckellen as macbeth.