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An excellent vintage Macbeth, ticking all the boxes for spikiness, shagginess, metal work, eyeliner, and exuberant facial hair. Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1909.
Maurice Ellis as Macduff (L) and Wardell Saunders as Malcolm, with the design for Malcolm's costume. The Federal Theatre Project Macbeth (the 'Voodoo Macbeth'), 1936, dir. Orson Welles, des. Nat Karson. The production design referenced a fantasy version of C19 Haiti.
Roger Furse's design for Banquo in the 1955 @TheRSC Macbeth - and with Macbeth, meeting the witches, dir. Glen Byam Shaw 📸Angus McBean. Laurence Olivier as Macbeth and Ralph Michael as Banquo.
Jack Carter as Macbeth, Kenneth Renwick and George Nixon as the Murderers, in the 1936 Federal Theatre Project production (the 'Voodoo Macbeth') at the Lafayette Theatre, Harlem. Dir. Orson Welles, des. Nat Karson. Karson's design for the set's permanent backdrop is to the right.
A SPLENDID vintage Macbeth: Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1909. The crown in particular is extraordinary, perched on that wig, and one can only imagine how much it all weighed (the mail doesn't look knitted).
Vivien Leigh as Lady Macbeth reading the letter @TheRSC 1955 📷Angus McBean - and her costume, des. Roger Furse. (The fabulous green clearly references Ellen Terry in the same role, of which more soon...)
@MeganRShaw disconcertingly like the deathbed portrait of Venetia Digby! but I guess they're all much of a muchness. (Somewhat idealised, given the circs of his death.)
Charles Edwards as Richard & Anneika Rose as the Queen @The_Globe in 2015, dir. Simon Godwin. And the tomb of Richard & his first wife Anne, on which they originally clasped hands, in @wabbey: a reminder that Shakespeare's queen is a composite of Anne & Isabel (who was a child).
Rough rug-headed (Irish) kerns: 2 images, by Dürer (1521) (does rug-headed also suggests the mantle worn over the head, as here?) & the wonderful portrait of Capt. Thomas Lee (1594), by Gheerhaerts. It's his bare legs which = 'kern', although other features are Roman/Elizabethan.