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Free Thinking: Macbeth on Film, James Shapiro, Barrie Keeffe

Macbeth on Film, James Shapiro, Barrie Keeffe

01/10/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Macbeth on Film, James Shapiro, Barrie Keeffe

Matthew Sweet looks at Macbeth on film and talks to Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro.

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro on 1606, Matthew Sweet, Sonia Massai and Andrew Hilton on the new Macbeth film, and Barrie Keeffe on a revival of his 1977 play Barbarians.

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro discusses 1606 - the year Macbeth was written. And Matthew Sweet is joined by Sonia Massai and Andrew Hilton to review the new film starring Michael Fassbender and look at other cinematic versions of "the Scottish play". Matthew also talks to playwright Barrie Keeffe about a revival of his 1977 play Barbarians, while Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell offers her take on the controversy surrounding the Jack The Ripper Museum in London's East End.

1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro is published by Faber & Faber and is out now.

Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard is on general release from 2nd October

Barbarians by Barrie Keeffe opens at Central St Martins in London on 3rd October and runs until 7th November. There's another production of the play at The Young Vic in London which opens on 2nd December

Producer: Torquil MacLeod



Image: James Shapiro
Photographer: Mary Cregan.

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