Director: Jack Gold [BBC]
This is staged on a set with basic spare scenery, and costumes set in the period of when the story takes place.
This Macbeth is a smidge more power-hungry. Lady Macbeth shows more the fear of what her husband has become (a tyrant--as opposed to mad/crazy). [In the scene where Macbeth turns a corner, he mimes his thoughts by absent-mindedly coming close to choking her.]
This Macduff is wrought with grief and tears when he hears the news of his wife and kids. Silent silhouettes of the witches/weird sisters repeat through the later parts of the play.
The ending leaves a visual cliff-hanger of the future tension between Fleance and Malcolm.
The scene where Siward hears of his son's death is included.
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