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November 27th, 2009
Macbeth
Production Announcement

Following a London West End run in December 2007, a sold-out limited engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in March 2008, and a subsequent eight-week run on Broadway, director Rupert Goold’s gripping stage production of Macbeth—starring Patrick Stewart in a triumphant, Tony-nominated performance—will be filmed for television in a co-production agreement between WNET.ORG and Illuminations Television, in association with the BBC.

Originating at England’s innovative Chichester Festival Theatre, director Goold’s exciting interpretation relocates the bloody action to a nameless 20th century nether world. Tony-nominated Kate Fleetwood also returns to reprise her stage role performance as Lady Macbeth.

Shot in High Definition on UK locations, Goold will maintain the atmosphere and tone of the critically acclaimed stage production, heightening the Shakespearean classic with an edgy style reminiscent of Illuminations’ recent film adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet, which will be broadcast on PBS in April 2010 by THIRTEEN’s Great Performances.

For Great Performances, Bill O’Donnell is series producer; David Horn is executive producer. For Illuminations, John Wyver and Sebastian Grant are producers.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episode...

Ooh sounds delicious. Thanks for the news Jenna!

Favorite Characters of Macbeth? WHy?

Lord and lady macbeth for their downright corruption of their better natures. Evil incarnate. Love it

I agree Lady Macbeth is an intese character and my favorite. Though the witches are pretty nifty. :)

Anyone else like Patrick Stewart in the modernization of MacBeth?

Has anyone seen the Denzel Washington version of "Macbeth"?