If you’re a Maggie Smith fan who enjoyed watching the Dowager Countess’ biting wit or seeing Professor McGonagall’s strict but kind-hearted command of her classroom, you’re in for a treat today. In the 1960s, when Smith was a fixture at the National Theatre in London, she starred in a production there as one of Shakespeare’s wittiest verbal sparrers, Much Ado About Nothing’s Beatrice. That production boasted plenty more talent, including Derek Jacobi early in his soon-to-be-acclaimed stage career, Franco Zeffirelli producing the show just before he went on to make his celebrated Romeo and Juliet film, and Smith’s first husband, Robert Stephens, shortly before they got married. Though all that talent on stage together was preserved in a 1967 telecast on BBC, preserving the show forever didn’t appear to be the production’s destiny. Recorded at a time when BBC routinely deleted archive programs...
- 9/30/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
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