Posted on 09/27/2010 11:40:01 AM PDT by EveningStar
Following a London West End run in December 2007, a sold-out limited engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in March 2008, and a subsequent eight-week run on Broadway, director Rupert Goold’s gripping stage production of Macbeth was filmed for television at the end of 2009.
The co-production between WNET.ORG and Illuminations Television, in association with the BBC, stars Sir Patrick Stewart in his triumphant, Tony-nominated performance as the ambitious general, and Tony-nominated Kate Fleetwood as his coldly scheming wife.
The production, though retaining the Goold’s exciting concept of relocating the bloody action to a nameless 20th-century militaristic society, has been rethought in vivid filmic terms. The movie, marking Goold’s cinematic debut, will be presented on PBS as part of the Great Performances series Wednesday, October 6, at 9 p.m.
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LOL! :)
“as” = “has” GAH!
The idea that Forbidden Planet was loosely based on The Tempest is a real stretch, no matter what they say.
Compare it with Sir John Gielgud’s “Prospero’s Books”, which turned The Tempest into a beautiful work of art, the screen filled with actors playing invisible spirits, doing their enigmatic spirit things, that only Prospero could see. Each scene was like a magnificent, and dynamic, oil painting of a festival of people.
I agree. Ian McKellen and the rest of the cast were fine and the sets were imaginative.
Having read a synopsis of The Tempest, I agree.
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