Patrick Stewart in Macbeth
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Rupert Goold’s acclaimed production of Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood, is going to New York. The Chichester Festival production, which is currently playing a 10-week season at London’s Gielgud Theatre, will transfer to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a six-week engagement beginning on 12 February, 2008.
The cast of Shakespeare tragedy stars Stewart as Macbeth and Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth. The rest of the cast features Paul Shelley (Duncan), Scott Handy (Malcolm), Ben Carpenter (Donalbain), Martin Turner (Banquo), Michael Feast (Macduff), Mark Rawlings (Lennox), Tim Treloar (Ross), Bill Nash (Angus), Christopher Knott (Old Seyward), Oliver Birch,Christopher Nolan (Seyton), Hywel John (Bloody Captain), Suzanne Burden (Lady Macduff) and Polly Frame, Niamh McGrady and Sophie Hunter (Witches).
This austere production places Macbeth in a timeless and nameless country, with a law of its own. Disturbing and unsettling, the play centres on the building tensions, paranoia and fear that lead to violence and murder.
Macbeth will finish its run in the West End on 1 December.