To the Gate Notting Hill tonight for an NT Live encore screening of the Manchester International Festival Macbeth. I was away when this production with Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston was shown live in cinemas, and more
I have written before about NT Live - the National Theatre's immensely successful live to cinema broadcasts - including about their showings of Hamlet, Frankenstein and Phedre, as well as general pieces here and more
Today's lesson (which I reflect upon across the jump) comes in the shape of a substantial quote from a Times interview by Libby Purves (£) last week with the director of the National Theatre Nick Hytner. Talking of more