Macbeth, 1983, Royal Shakespeare Company: Alan Howard as Macbeth; Anastasia Hille as Lady Macbeth.Theatre: Barbican.

Macbeth: Director, Howard Davis; Designer, Chris Dyer; Photo, Donald Cooper (ahds,ac.uk./performing arts); 1983.

"[Macbeth] is played in near modern dress, in a cavernous steel-poled gymnasium dominated by two percussionists aloft armed with rattles and noisy contraptions. This unchanging space, and ironmongery has to make do as castle, wood, cave, heath and bedroom." John Barber, Daily Telegraph 17.8.83.Opening Date: 16 August 1983.

Curiously enough the eclectic modern style of this production approximated to an Elizabethan one's relation to then contemporary styles. HMR