MACBETH (1955)

Written by William Shakespeare

Directed by Glen Byam Shaw

Opened at Stratford-upon-Avon, June 7, 1955

Cast: Vivien Leigh (Lady Macbeth), Laurence Olivier (Macbeth), Maxine Audley (Lady Macduff), Keith Michell (Macduff), Geoffrey Bayldon (Duncan), Trader Faulkner (Malcolm), Ian Holm (Donalbain), William Devlin (Ross), James Grout (Lennox), Robert Hunter (Menteith), Gabriel Woolf (Caithness), Ralph Michael (Banquo), Paul Vieyra (Fleance), Lee Montague (Seyton), Mary Law (Weird Sisters), David King (Servant), Patrick Wymark (Porter), George Bayldon (Doctor), and Rosalind Atkinson (Gentlewoman)

Comments

The Times critic "Miss Vivien Leigh appears as a small, baleful, gleaming Lady Macbeth but her looks and her voice are disconcertingly at odds." (from Anne Edwards' book)

Tynan "Miss Vivien Leigh's Lady Macbeth is more niminy-piminy than thundery-blundery, more viper than anaconda, but still quite competent in its small way." (from Anne Edwards' book)

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