Getting it right? An Historian among the Actors

Abstract

As an early modernist who also works in the field of public history, I am fascinated with attempts to recapture the past whether in living history re-enactments, films, early music concerts or on the stage. To find relevance for our present lives by exploring the way things were seems to me to be an important pursuit and so I get excited by well-researched period performances. So I happily accepted a chance to work with the National Art Centre’s English Theatre Company on its 2008 production of Macbeth.