Goold’s Macbeth to be broadcast by the BBC
The BBC is to follow its forthcoming television version of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Hamlet with a remake of Chichester Festival Theatre’s award-winning staging of Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart.
Stewart will reprise his role as Macbeth for the TV version of the production, with Kate Fleetwood playing Lady Macbeth and Michael Feast appearing as Macduff.
Rupert Goold, who directed the 2007 stage production, has also directed the television version, which has been filmed on location around the UK.
The original stage version of the show was a major hit for Chichester Festival Theatre, with Goold winning a 2008 Critics’ Circle Award for his direction of the production, and Stewart picking up the award for Best Shakespearean Performance.
Goold and Stewart also won awards at the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Following its initial run at Chichester’s Minerva studio, the production transferred to the West End for a ten-week run at the Gielgud Theatre, and later opened in New York.
The BBC production of the show is being made by independent company Illuminations, which has also filmed the RSC’s Hamlet, starring David Tennant, and which will be broadcast over Christmas on BBC2.
The BBC could not confirm further details about Macbeth.
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