Elsie and Norman are a married couple who live "up North". They fancy reading a bit of culture rather than inviting people around to play Trivial Pursuit or watching rubbish on telly. Rummaging through the shelves of the mobile library van, they come across copies of "Macbeth" which they find to be just the culture-bridge they've been looking for. Before performing the play in their living room for their friends, however, Norm decides to re-write the story so that it will come across as "a bit snappier and more punchy", to use his own words.
The two of them play all the parts, except for Banquo and his son, Fleance: the latter are played by one large and one smaller panda (stuffed and wearing very fetching little mini-kilts!). Add to this a Witch who sings The Blues, a right Royal banquet restricted to beans on toast on lap-trays, the ghost of Banquo skulking under a tea towel and the two cast members at pains to produce getting on for a dozen different voices between them, and you'll realise that this is going to be an exceptionally funny and enjoyable spoof on the real 'Macbeth'! |
