This Is Macbeth
by Greg Watkins
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Actor: Allison Jean White, Jeremy Sabol, Ken Ruta, Liam Vincent, Mark Anderson PhillipsDirector: Greg Watkins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 99 minutes
Published: 2008
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-01
Studio: Reinventing the Wheel
Product features:
- Includes stagings of full scenes from Shakespeare's tragedy
- On-screen text packed with information for multiple viewings
- Musical summaries of plot and themes
- Medieval commercial breaks
DVD Reviews of This Is Macbeth
DVD Review: Terrific Tool for Shakespeare
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally, a contemporary approach to teaching Shakespeare that works!
Having preformed and directed Shakespeare since the early 70s, including teaching at the high school level, I have had a chance to see a number of attempts to make Shakespeare understandable to the younger audience -- and most of them were just so-so. This Is Macbeth, thankfully, is superb. The makers of this combine a spot-on understanding of the issues and concepts in Macbeth with a highly entertaining and contemporary vehicle to convey them. They use an "interview" format with the actors. The interviewer asks very penetrating questions to understand what is happening in this story from the actors point of view. But the actors are in character, so the modern interviewer is questioning the characters themselves who interact with him and each other in a very conversational way. This really gets the ideas, sometimes subtle and difficult, across in a way anyone can relate to. Furthermore, the questions are in the order of the plays action so one gets drawn into the story almost immediately including the real suspense that comes from it as the story progresses. The "commercial" breaks are very funny and also tie into modern culture in a way that makes this entire effort extremely accessible to today's audience. The acting is quite good and when it breaks to the actual scenes from the play they are by then, very understandable and oh so interesting.
This is a very clever and successful piece of work. I think this has great application to students through high school and college. Frankly, for almost anyone initially, Shakespeare can be difficult to access but a tool like this is just what is needed to bring his great and universal observations to life. Now-- this team needs to develop the same type of approach for all his plays. Now that would be something for every school library!
Description of This Is Macbeth
FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND LOVERS OF SHAKESPEARE. A hilarious and insightful introduction to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, featuring probing interviews with the tragedy's main characters and the staging of key scenes. Watch as Macbeth (Mark Anderson Phillips) and Lady Macbeth (Allison White) rise to power and fall to ruin.Bestsellers in DVD
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