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Nunn's production transferred to London in 1977 and was later filmed for television.
It was to overshadow Peter Hall's 1978 production with Albert Finney as Macbeth and Dorothy Tutin as Lady Macbeth.
An infamous version was staged at the Old Vic in 1980.
Peter O ' Toole and Frances Tomelty took the leads in a production ( by Bryan Forbes ) that was publicly disowned by Timothy West, artistic director of the theatre, before opening night, despite being a sellout because of its notoriety.
" As critic Jack Tinker noted in the Daily Mail: " The performance is not so much downright bad as heroically ludicrous.
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