Macbeth

Macbeth, Shakespeare’s last great tragedy, has remained one of the most popular plays since it’s first performance in 1606 – probably in front of King James. This exciting new audiobook production is directed with fresh imagination by Fiona Shaw who breaks the conventional strait jacket that has hampered the development of Shakespeare on audio. We are as much in the twenty-first century as in medieval Scotland – the tensions, the politics, the struggle for power and dark ambition is part of our lives… This is also reflected in the sound world, with modern machinery and tanks. Macbeth is part of Naxos AudioBooks’ exciting new series of complete dramatisations of the works of Shakespeare, in conjunction with Cambridge University Press. It uses the New Cambridge Shakespeare text, as used by the Royal Shakespeare Company and educational institutions across the world.

3 CDs | Running Time: 2h 20m | ISBN: 978–962–634–162–9 | Cat. no.: NA316212 | RRP: £13.99RRP:£13.99 GBPSRP: US $ 22.98RRP:£13.99 GBP

CAST

Macbeth – Stephen Dillane
Lady Macbeth – Fiona Shaw
Duncan – Denys Hawthorne
Malcolm/Apparition 2 – Declan Conlan
Banquo – Adam Kotz
Macduff/Apparition 1 – Colin Tiernay
Ross – Nick Gecks
Lennox – Bruce Alexander
Porter – Bill Paterson
Witch 1 – Annette Badland
Witch 2 – Joyce Henderson
Witch 3/Gentlewoman – Pauline Lynch
Hecate – June Watson
Doctor/Old Man/Siward – John Rogan
Donaldbain/Young Siward – Benjamin Soames
Fleance/Apparition 3 – James Boxer
Lady Macduff – Stella Gonet
Son of Macduff – Stephanie Lane
Captain/1st Murderer/Caithness/Lord/Seyton – David Timson
2nd Murderer/Mentheith/Servant – Jonathan Keeble
Angus/Servant/Soldier/3rd Murderer – Peter Yapp

PODCAST

Speak the Speech...
In a talk given at the 2008 Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, David Timson, director of four Naxos AudioBooks Shakespeare recordings and author of Shakespeare Stories, surveys the changing styles of Shakespeare performance through recordings starting with Henry Irving in the 1890s through to Kenneth Branagh in the twenty-first century.

Speak the Speech... (MP3, 58 min., 20 MB)
Accompanying notes (PDF, 120 KB)

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