The Stanley Baxter Playhouse - Series 4 - Episode 1

In this first play in the new series of The Stanley Baxter Playhouse, Gordon Kennedy, Stuart McQuarrie and Siobhan Redmond join Stanley Baxter in a comedy based on Shakespeare's Scottish play, where the porter becomes the hero and invites us to hear his version of the events that led up to the murder of King Duncan; and what just might have happened after it. We will discover that it was all really Lady Macbeth's fault, for marrying Macbeth and spoiling the porter's long term plans to groom his coarse and unschooled master to be a suave, smooth operator with fine manners and a statesman like approach to politics. His plans are foiled in a series of mishaps which are hilarious and very cunning. Cast: Porter ..... Stanley Baxter Macbeth ..... Gordon Kennedy Lady Macbeth ..... Siobhan Redmond Duncan/Nobleman ..... Stuart McQuarrie Siobhan Redmond starred in the 2010 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Dunsinane by David Greig, where she played Lady Macbeth. Gordon Kennedy undertook the role of Little John in the BBC TV series Robin Hood. Rona Munro is one of Scotland's most highly regarded playwrights, with award winning films, television dramas (Rehab) and her Edinburgh International Festival success The Last Witch to her credit. Written by Rona Munro Producer: Marilyn Imrie A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.