Career SR Macbeth

BBC Shakespeare Retold: Macbeth - Peter Macduff (2005)

The BBC are doing four adaptations of Shakespeare plays and they’ve kind of given them a contemporary flavour in a similar way to the way they did the Canterbury Tales. I’m playing Macduff in their version of Macbeth which is set in a kitchen of a Michelin-starred restaurant sort of a la Gordon Ramsay. It’s pretty anarchic and it’s going to be quite exciting. I’m off tomorrow to do some research at La Gavroche.
(The Johnny Walker Show, Matthew Wright, Radio 2, March 16, 2005)

Production details

Cast
Joe Macbeth - James McAvoy
Ella Macbeth - Keeley Hawes
Vincent Regan - Duncan
Peter Macduff - Richard Armitage
Malcolm - Toby Kebbell
Billy - Joseph Millson

The dvd for the boxed set of Shakespeare Retold may be purchased at:

Amazon.com (region 1)

The dvd for Shakespeare Retold: Macbeth may be purchased at:

ABC shop online (region 4)
EzyDVD (region 4)

Director
Mark Brozel

Writers
Peter Moffatt
William Shakespeare

[It] is called Nose to Tail and it is all entrails and organs that they cook up. It is all blood and meat so it works very well for Macbeth. (Richard Armitage: BBC Ceefax page 524, September 15, 2005, Richard Armitage Online, Macbeth, Introduction)

The idea was to find a contemporary situation and environment where you have a hierarchy, a killer instinct and a cut-throat, hothouse atmosphere. (The Times, September 10, 2005)

There are very few places in modern society where you have such a strict hierarchy, but the professional kitchen certainly does. (The Times, September 10, 2005)

I worked in La Gavroche with Silvano, the head waiter. He said the skill of a head waiter is to be completely invisible and that was my starting point. (The Times, September 10, 2005)

My character is actually head waiter so I’ve got to, sort of, study the front of house stuff. So, that should be interesting.
(The Johnny Walker Show, Matthew Wright, Radio 2, March 16, 2005)