Dominic Cooke production 2004

Other videos in this series

• Macbeth (2004) - Act 5 Scene 5

  Watch this extract from the production, filmed on stage in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 2004. Below you'll find links to more video clips where the director and actor discuss issues raised by this extract.

  Act 5 Scene 5

  When Seyton tells him that Lady Macbeth is dead, Macbeth is numb with shock as he speaks about the passage of time.

  Macbeth - Greg Hicks

  
  

  Filmed, edited and produced for the RSC by Cornucopia Productions.

• Dominic Cooke - Macbeth, villain or victim?

  'Macbeth is basically a good man,' says director Dominic Cooke as he discusses why Macbeth remains a fascinating story and why Macbeth has so many soliloquies.

• Greg Hicks - Free will or fate?

  Actor Greg Hicks plays Macbeth and believes the whole play is leading up to the moment we see in the extract from Act 5 Scene 5. He also discusses the play's theme of free will and fate.

• Greg Hicks - What's next for Macbeth?

  In character as Macbeth, Greg Hicks responds to a question about what Macbeth is thinking during this extract from Act 5 Scene 5.