The last moments of a production are important because they can greatly alter the audiences' interpretation of the entire play. This is especially true in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. A number of unanswered questions such as whom is responsible for Macbeth's fate and whether peace is restored to the kingdom, gather at the end of the play Macbeth. In each of the different productions, directors Orson Wells, Roman Polanski, and Trevor Nunn allude to these answers.
             Shakespeare's play ends with Malcolm saying to his kinsman:
             We shall not spend a large expense of time
             Before we reckon with your several loves
             And make us even with you. My Thanes and kinsmen,
             Henceforth be Earls, the first that ever Scotland
             In such an honor named. What's more to do,
             Which would be planted newly with the time,
             As calling home our exiled friends abroad
             That fled the snares of watchful tyranny,
             Producing forth the cruel ministers
             Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
             Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
             Took off her life; this, and what needful else
             That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace
             We will perform in measure, time, and place.
             So thanks to all at once and to each one,
             Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone (5.9.60-75)
             Because his speech merely recaps past events that the audience already knows and does not provide any revelation into the unanswered questions of the play, Malcolm's speech leaves the audience with ambiguities.
             Malcolm's speech contains no comments on where to place the blame of Macbeth's fate, thus the audience must decide for themselves as to whether Macbeth alone stands responsible for his fate or whether the witches participation holds them as the responsible ones. Director Roman Polanski at...