Here's a hint.
You know, it's funny -- I don't think I've ever seen a stage production of Shakespeare's Scottish play. My first exposure to it was on live TV, in 1954, in a celebrated NBC Hallnark Hall of Fame version starring Maurice Evans, who shall we say had a whiff of pork about him...
...but it nevertheless made a profound influence on the young me.
I should add that, obviously, the version I'm gonna see tomorrow -- which stars Daniel Craig, of James Bond fame -- will probably blow my aging mind as well.
I mean, Macbeth played by a guy who looks good in a tux? Wow!
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Whether it's Polanski or Kurosawa, it is always worth one's attention. Here is Sparks' take, wherein the Scottish Play is reframed as a hit Reality-TV show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9p73NojlRc
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