Macbeth a Tragedy

Macbeth a Tragedy


Experimental Shakespeare: prose and poetry, reading and performance, with filming mechanics laid bare

Is there another Macbeth film in which the kilt provider gets his own credit? Clad in resplendent Scottish regalia, Macbeth (Owen Farmer) sits next to a woman (Julie Westerman) reading the Oxford Companion to English Literature's dry-as-dust synopsis, before the "tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy finally introduces Shakespeare's original poetry. To emphasise this already Brechtian approach, the single-take treatment frequently (and deliberately) reveals both lights and a crouching sound recordist.

`A comparison of text from "The Oxford Companion to English Literature", with
a full blown rendering of the 'Tomorrow' speech. A Brechtian romp, an art
school exercise.' Available on one reel with Welcome/Adieu


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