#macbeth performances

[mask131]

And to top it all off, various other incarnations of my favorite midnight-hags:

[tyttetardis]

Looks like David will be back as Macbeth tonight ❤️

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant as Macbeth for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)

In celebration of his 2024 Critics Circle Theatre Awards Best Shakespearean Performance win on March 25 2024 Photographer: Marc Brenner

[kidovna]

just watched david tennant play macbeth at the donmar warehouse

[ingravinoveritas]

Oh, this is such a difficult--if not nearly impossible--choice. Both David and Michael were utterly brilliant in their respective roles, but in completely different ways.

Having seen both plays this year (albeit one of them on a screen instead of live), I have to consider each performance in the context of the production. Michael as Aneurin Bevan was the anchor of his play, the central performance around which all the other performances revolved, and a steady presence in the midst of an occasionally chaotic staging. David as Macbeth was a shining light at the center of a taut, intense ensemble in a play that was minimalist in design yet immaculately staged.

The one thing I can say with certainty is that neither production would be the same without their respective performances. Both of them elevated either the material they were given (Michael) or the performances of everyone around them (David). But putting them up against each other is really challenging because they are such wildly different characters and performances.

What I would really love is to see this end in a tie with David and Michael both winning, but I know that isn't likely to happen. But I also know that if one wins and the other doesn't, Michael will be the one celebrating David's win the loudest (and vice-versa). So in thinking of this particular award, I can only think to vote with my heart and feel reassured that Michael and David (and Cush!) are more than deserving of it, regardless of what happens.

What do you all think? Any idea who you are voting for? I'm interested to hear what folks have to say!

(To vote for the 2024 What's On Stage Awards, click here.)

[y0imiy9]

hc mizu learns English by reading shakespeare and attending plays during her free time while in london ooouuuuoohuh uuhuhoooouuuuuoouuh

[aq2003]

been thinking about this a lot but i think one of the absolutely best things about dt's macbeth is his portrayal of the character's downright cruelty like he is so properly fucking horrifying at points and YET you still feel so fucking much for him anyway because at the same time you see this broken and traumatized man who keeps fighting and fighting and doesn't know how to stop

[dkniade]

Fanart of @blood-orange-juice’s early Fatui Ajax fic “Transcendere” that I did not long ago ^^

This part’s from chapter one.

It is, as the fic’s tags say, Fluff and Angst and Humour, Slice of Life, Hurt No Comfort

(Or, like snapshots of a boy with a toy knife becoming a weapon himself, with a vaguely fantastical lens over the story♦️…to put it nicely ^^”)

[startreklesbian]

it’s been over an hour and i still feel the wildest emotions

[thewinchestah]

okay now that the hotel will be full of new guests, I need everyone to get my vision:

alastor’s mandatory ✨bonding activities✨

He is making these sinners learn proper manners, “we are in hell, but we are not savages”

He’s hosting mandatory tea parties, everything dressed fancy and behaving like a royal monarch

He knows how boring it can get and uses it a form of ✨fun✨ torture

ALASTOR IS TOTALLY HOSTING A FORMAL/BALL. Attendance is mandatory and there will be a dancing competition like the “murder on the dance floor” music video

[kottekonst]

David Tennant just won "Best Shakespearean Performance" for his portrayal of MacBeth, from the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 👏👏👏 🥳

Very well deserved! It was the best of the four DT stage productions I've seen, and hoping to get a chance to see it again this Autumn 🍂 🙏

[dxcstrange-stuff]

“Better be with the dead

Whom we to gain our peace have sent to peace

Than on the torture of the mind to lie

In restless ecstasy.”

- Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2

[tyttetardis]

The platform slopes/tilts this time around - whereas it was flat at the Donmar. I'm guessing this might be the reason behind them not having him bleed out at the end since it would probably just run downwards and onto the actual stage 👀

[cosmiado]

alright y'all i want your thoughts. do we think Hermie is superstitious??? because i could see it going either way. on the one hand, with how seriously he takes theater, its VERY funny to picture some unaware freshman mentioning Macbeth and then getting side tackled by this scrawny ass joker bucko, but on the other hand, we know how dedicated to scams he is. part of me thinks he would find some hidden spot with good acoustics and just start whistling and slowly drive everyone wild

[dyketennant]

i want to see dt macbeth so badly im gonna rip my limbs off and roll around in my own blood

[headbandsandflats]

the uk gets paul mescal as stanley kowalski and david tennant as fucking macbeth in the same year and we get nothingggg i hate it here