Da ich - wie schon andernorts angedeutet - meine 'ShakespeaRetold'-DVD entstaubt habe, habe ich gerade mal im Internet gestöbert und bin darüber gestolpert:
TV Review: Modern 'Macbeth' spills blood in the kitchenAugust 10, 2006 12:00 AM
By Christopher Rawson Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A BBC America update puts "Macbeth" in the kitchen of a top restaurant, with James McAvoy and
'Macbeth'
When: BBC America cable channel, Sun. 7 p.m.
But first, an apology. In reviewing the debut of the series, last week's "Much Ado About Nothing," in which Beatrice and Benedict were transformed into feuding news anchors on a regional British TV channel, I apparently stirred up an appetite I couldn't satisfy. Several readers searched fruitlessly for "ShakespeaRe-Told" on PBS, where they're used to seeing BBC shows, not realizing that BBC America is a distinct cable channel, available mainly to people with digital cable.
So if you don't have BBC America, prepare to be disappointed again -- or find a friend who will tape it for you.
Like "Much Ado," "Macbeth" is completely re-written by Peter Moffat in a modern idiom. But his script is ingenuous in finding modern analogies for plot and characters. In some ways, "Macbeth" works even better than "Much Ado." Amid the comedy of the latter, I was constantly noticing the ways the Bard had been purposefully fitted to a more modern taste. But "Macbeth" is a more compact, focused experience already, so once the basic equivalents have been set, the story can drive doggedly forward without the distractions (in this case) of witty translations.
That basic equivalent is the blood of the kitchen, which makes a fitting parallel to the blood of battle. In this highly competitive restaurant, just distinguished with the award of a third Michelin star, the intense kitchen camaraderie is very like that on a battlefield.
Joe Macbeth loves his work and pursues it with passion. His handsome wife, elegant in black leather, manages the personal politics and P.R. at the front of the restaurant as its maitre d', but Macbeth's role is more intense and primal -- perfecting recipes and techniques while bonding with the kitchen staff amid the bloody intensity of the work.
Meanwhile, the restaurant owner, Duncan Docherty (an Irishman -- interesting choice) accepts the plaudits that belong to Joe. He even puts on a blood-spattered chef's smock to accept those plaudits from customers who don't know he no longer busies himself in the kitchen. So Macbeth is willing enough to fall in with his wife's plan to murder Duncan and gain control, since Duncan's son Malcolm is not yet up to speed in the business.
The three witches are amusingly transformed into three sanitation workers ("bin men," the Brits say). It's clear that they can prophesy because they know their world so well, deducing from the debris of people's lives. Their irreverence is tangy. They tell Macbeth he's safe until pigs fly, which sounds like forever, but by the end of the movie the pigs are definitely flying, as police helicopters hover overhead.
There are other clever adaptations like this, as when someone mentions the name of a famous chef, only to be rebuked and told that's bad luck: "just call him 'the Scottish chef,' " he's told, a clear approximation of the backstage superstition of never saying "Macbeth" but referring to it instead as "the Scottish play." And the bin men slip in lots of Shakespearean borrowings -- "sound and fury," "all our yesterdays."
"Macbeth" is aired Sunday at 7 p.m., but you probably don't want to let young children watch, since it's pretty gory. The goriest sequence involves the slicing and dicing not of humans (all that killing takes place off camera) but of the meat they prepare, and especially a large pig's head.
As the guilt of their murder works its way through Macbeth's and his wife's defenses, they begin to see blood everywhere. The camera lovingly caresses what color it can find, like the maitre d's lipstick. It's all pretty creepy -- appropriately so -- but if you're used to Scottish cop movies, it isn't excessive.
James McAvoy is the surprisingly youthful Macbeth and Keeley Hawes is his very chic wife. Joseph Millson and Richard Armitage are strong as Billy (Banquo) and Peter MacDuff.Sure, you lose the language -- no one would want experiments like this to take the place of real Shakespeare. But there is more to Shakespeare's plots (however borrowed) that at first appears. By stripping down to plot, these plays remind us that Shakespeare was also a pretty good storyteller, not just a poet.
Still ahead: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," set in a modern Bard-themed park (Aug. 20), and "Taming of the Shrew," set among politicians (Aug. 27).
Post-Gazette theater critic Christopher Rawson can be reached at
crawson@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1666.
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Ich hatte so am Rande mitbekommen, dass das ganze als Einzel DVD erscheint, aber das es tatsächlich auf Deutsch erscheint, war mir nicht klar! 
, da waren die in dem Laden aber schnell!
) Aber JETZT werde ich sie mir auf jeden Fall besorgen und anschauen.
Ich arbeite ausschliesslich mit Skalpell, zugegebenermassen teilweise auch mit etwas gröberen Maschinen. 
Ein Hackmesser(chen) habe ich aber weder beruflich noch privat im Sortiment.