me and macbeth
It was one of the Shakespeare plays I studied in Year 11 English (and I think we watched the Polanski film version of it too)... and I've read Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters (which is incredibly loosely based on a combination of Macbeth and Hamlet) and seen the cartoon version.
But it means that I know the material... moreso than any other Shakespeare play... there are even chunks of it that are starting to become lodged in my memory and that I can more or less recite at will... not always perfectly, but well enough.
And it's something I keep wanting to go back to...
So this page details the versions I've seen so far and I'll add to it as I see new versions.
Plays
- The Q Theatre Company production (approx 1993)
The Q Theatre - State Theatre production (approx 1998)
Jeremy Sims as Macbeth
Adelaide Festival Theatre - The Border Project production "VS Macbeth" (2010)
Odeon Theatre, Adelaide Festival of Arts - Body in Space production (2011)
Arcade Lane, Adelaide Fringe Festival - University of Adelaide Theatre Guild production (2011)
Little Theatre, University of Adelaide - Bell Shakespeare Company production (2012)
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House
- Throne of Blood (1957)
Toshirô Mifune as Taketoki Washizu
Isuzu Yamada as Lady Asaji Washizu
Directed by Akira Kurosawa - The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
Jon Finch as Macbeth
Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth
Directed by Roman Polanski - Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Macbeth (1992)
Brian Cox as Macbeth
Zoë Wanamaker as Lady Macbeth
Directed by Nikolai Serebryakov and Dave Edwards - ShakespeaRe-Told - Macbeth (2005)
James McAvoy as Joe Macbeth
Keeley Hawes as Ella Macbeth
Directed by Mark Brozel - Macbeth (2006)
Sam Worthington as Macbeth
Victoria Hill as Lady Macbeth
Directed by Geoffrey Wright - Great Performances: Macbeth (2010)
Patrick Stewart as Macbeth
Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth
Directed by Rupert Goold
- The original play (studied in Year 10 English)
- Macbeth (Manga Shakespeare) by Robert Deas and Richard Appignanesi
