Macbeth
Cast & Crew
Cast
Unknown | Timothy Ackroyd |
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Unknown | Jack Allen |
Unknown | Bernard Archard |
Unknown | Cajetan Baptista |
Unknown | Marjorie Bland |
Unknown | Brian Blessed |
Unknown | Christopher Chittell |
Unknown | Jane Cussons |
Unknown | Kevin Doyle |
Unknown | Christopher Fulford |
Unknown | William Hart |
Unknown | Bob Hewis |
Unknown | John Hug |
Unknown | Stephen Jenn |
Unknown | Rob Macdonald |
Unknown | Kevin Quarmby |
Unknown | Hilary Reynolds |
Unknown | Peter Roberts |
Unknown | Gerald Sim |
Unknown | Jackie Smith Wood |
Unknown | Trudie Styler |
Unknown | Philip Sully |
Unknown | David Sumner |
Unknown | Dudley Sutton |
Unknown | Frances Tomelty |
Unknown | John Tordoff |
Unknown | David Williamson |
Unknown | Clive Wood |
Macbeth | Peter O’Toole |
Crew | |
Designer | Keith Wilson |
Director | Bryan Forbes |
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Photo credits
- PETR ROBERTS by PETER ROBERTS, Own work
- PETER ROBERTS by PETER ROBERTS, Own work
Observations
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This was a cast invitation /non audition production, which saved the Old Vic from financial ruin. It was one of the most famous productions in theatrical history, due to it’s controversial interpretations of the role of Macbeth by Peter, and the savage reviews which guaranteed its success, with daily queues around the Vic for tickets.
I was an actor with Company from it’s inception, having been invited to join by both Bryan and Peter. Nothing can truly describe the exhilarating experience, a cross between Kean and Woolfit playing before a baying London press out for more blood than was exhibited on stage.
There are too many personal anecdotes to elaborate on here, but the theatre will not see it’s like again.
Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -
ABOVE INCLUSION ADDED BY PETER ROBERTS
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For my analysis of this production as an actor who “experienced” it firsthand, please see my 2005 article in the journal Shakespeare: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233077490_A_Twenty-fifth_Anniversary_Study_of_Rehearsal_and_Performance_Practice_in_the_1980_Royal_Court_Hamlet_and_the_Old_Vic_Macbeth_An_Actor’s_View
Such a memorable, if slightly zany, few months. Kevin Quarmby.
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