#dt macbeth

Also first of all I loved it, I’m just a perfectionist with some ocd so being critical is in my nature, please do not mistake this for hating

HP was def better than the recording no contest, but it was still good

The blood dripping into the bowl was Cool but I preferred the pitch black for the first encounter with the witches—I think it made the first visual of the actor so much more striking

It really Really frustrated me that they zoomed inside the box. Like in the theatre this part of the production was *SO* fucking 😗👌 effective, because it loomed in the background and looked over the stage, and it lost effectiveness when they zoomed in and filmed from inside the box on individual speakers imo. Like it fell kind of flat where it was so powerful before

The pause/slow-mo to place Macbeth looming and monologuing over Malcolm as Macbeth is leaving was significantly less refined and effective than in the HP performances I saw. Like it still kinda worked but it worked so well when I saw it at HP and it didn’t quite meet that—edit: or maybe it’s because they filmed it from a higher angle so it didn’t have the same looming over effect? Idk but it wasn’t quite as good

So Casper was the only child actor I hadn’t seen, and everyone’s Scottish—but Cush as Lasy Macbeth was, the talk around the production went, the only English person. So I was really excited to get to see Casper but yo I was so distracted by his very southern English accent and a lil disappointed ngl

Was wondering how they were going to make the Porter’s scene work. For some reason I thought it was filmed without an audience. Glad it held tho. Probably wasn’t any Trvmp assassination joke in 2023 which I should’ve thought of before bc I was wondering what they’d do with that

Def preferred the rump slap for the “here you may roast your goose” than what was recorded but eh

Cinema/Donmar version was def more chilling when he switches back from the jokes and into the “I pray you. Remember the Porter.”

Annoyed that the short converstion between the Porter and MacDuff about drunkenness was cut. Was it performed and cut for editing timing for the cinema?

Was Banquo in the box during the dinner scene at the Pinter? I don’t remember him being in the box during that scene in the cinema… pls remind

I think the Lady MacDuff scene was more intense here than at the HP? Remind me other people who saw it, but I thought she was dragged off screaming in the Pinter production? Also I think what the child did was different between the two? Help my memory out 🙏

The scene where he summons the witches I liked way better in the HP version, tho I wish I remembered more details of it beyond the convulsing which was 👌

The David Tennant monologuing to camera didnt jar and bother me like I was afraid it might’ve. I think I still would’ve preferred more wide shots interspersed—especially and definitely where there were things happening in the box at the same time