Macbeth: Antony Sher

Макбет: Энтони Шер

This film was the televised version of the sellout stage show, starring Anthony Sher as Macbeth and Harriet Walter as Lady Macbeth. It had an enormously successful run in England, Japan and the USA. It was filmed exclusively at the Roundhouse theatre in Chalk Farm, London, where Nicol Williamson's Hamlet had been filmed over 20 years before.

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Actors

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Macduff

Banquo

Angus

Crew

Director

Gregory Doran

About

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth has been lauded as the finest production of Shakespeare’s Scottish play for over a quarter of a century. In 2000, it played to packed houses in Stratford, London, and theatres abroad.

All twenty actors from the original production, including Antony Sher and Harriet Walter, star in this compelling screen version of Gregory Doran’s original stage production. Cleverly re-conceived for the camera, and brilliantly shot at London’s Roundhouse, Macbeth was filmed in a gritty style using the edgy techniques of fly-on-the-wall documentaries. Doran says, “Macbeth is, in many ways, the most filmic of Shakespeare’s plays with its short, quick-fire scenes and its hurtling, dynamic momentum. In the film I tried to capture its raw energy and dangerous intimacy.”

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Royal Shakespeare Company

Introducing the Royal Shakespeare Company repertoire, the legendary theatre company from Stratford-upon-Avon, in our online cinema TheatreHD/Play. Stars of British theatre and cinema in William Shakespeare’s plays: David Tennant, Anthony Sher, Simon Russell Beale, Lucian Msamati, Christopher Eccleston, Paapa Essiedu, Kathryn Hunter and other artists loved by the audience. Shakespeare's great comedies and tragedies - King Lear, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, Othello, Richard II and others - come to life on the stage of the renowned theatre. Our RSC catalogue is available to watch online. →