In 1978, Trevor Nunn staged what would become a legendary production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.  The play was produced in a small studio theatre, with the actors working in the round were minimum sets and costuming.  Shifts in location or mood were indicated are by lighting changes.  It was a production that captured both the intensity of the play but also the horror of Shakespeare’s play about ambition, guilt, fate, and multiple murders.  Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were played by Ian McKellen and Judi Dench.

This production was filmed and, in 1979, broadcast on Thames Television in the UK.  Here, for today’s staged horror, is the Trevor Nunn production of MacBeth, starring Ian McKellen and Judi Dench.