Macbeth and the Three Witches (2022, PG)

Here is my official video project of what it would be like to see a homemade puppet production of "Macbeth" as it would have been seen back in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. This is a video made exclusively for my Shakespeare Film and Literature class at Miami University. The dialogue is lifted from the 1971 Roman Polanski production of "Macbeth" on account of accuracy of performances. The original-made narration is to compress the 3 hour story into an 8.5 minute video. A word of warning to parents: There is a bloody image of Macbeth at the end of the film that can be considered graphic for some audiences, but due to the lack of explicit content in this particular video, content is comparable to that of a PG-rated film, although the original film source was rated R for explicit violence and graphic nudity (and yet airs as a PG on TV... in the daytime... largely uncut). This version lacks the rough nature of the film and bears no inappropriate material, other than the macabre fate of one of the characters. Enjoy this rendition of Macbeth as it would have been adapted for the paper stage!

Cast (In Order of Appearance):
Text-To-Speech as the Narrator
Maisie MacFarquhar as the Questioning and Answering Witch
Elsie Taylor as the Leading Witch
Jon Finch as Macbeth/Visionary Ghost
Mark Dightam as Young Visionary Ghost
Bill Drysdale and Roy Jones as the Ghostly King's Grooms
Terence Bayler as Macduff

Audio segments: (C) 1971 Columbia Pictures