Good Morning everyone and welcome to today’s rehearsal of Macbeth. Now, Megan, firstly I’d like to congratulate you on earning the role of Lady Macbeth, I am more than confident that you will execute this play in flying colours. I am sure most of you are familiar with the play thanks to your Year 12 English. Lady Macbeth suffers none of her husband’s uncertainty. She desires the kingship for him and wants him to murder Duncan in order to obtain it. When Macbeth arrives at Inverness, she overrides all of her husband’s objections and persuades him to kill the king that very night. In other words, Lady Macbeth knows what she wants, and when she wants it. Lady Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s most powerful character. Shakespeare portrays Lady Macbeth as a sly, vicious and rancorous woman, one who is initially incredibly overpowering and overambitious, however, eventually the guilt of her actions mentally deranges her to the point where she forfeits her own life.
After King Duncan’s murder, Lady Macbeth faints, but it is up to your own interpretation whether the faint was in fact real or not. I want you to implement my invited reading that it was in fact a fabricated faint as she cries “Help me hence, ho!”. In the scenes towards the middle of the play, her power and control over Macbeth significantly decreases when he becomes more independent, which leads to her fall to madness. I’m going to go through two key scenes with you. In Act 1, you receive a letter from Macbeth about how the three witches correctly predicted his appointment as Thane of Cawdor, and how they also predicted that he was destined for kingship. After reading this, your mind quickly thinks of the idea to murder the king and expects the vision of Macbeth being crowned king and yourself as queen. In this incident, you ache for Macbeth to hurry home so you can convince him into performing the act and abolishing anything stopping him from doing so. Utter each word keenly with hatred and rush while grinning contentedly, make sure you perform harsh gestures throughout this scene.
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In the concluding act, my invited reading of Lady Macbeth is a devastated woman who descents into insanity when the guilt takes complete control of her mind. In these scenes you will be seen confessing your sins as you sleepwalk, holding a candle as fear grips you and your voice will be soft and croaky, but also annoyed, overall an extreme difference to your previous parts.
Karen, by now I hope you’ve developed a stronger understanding of how to represent Lady Macbeth. In summary, Lady Macbeth is a toxic, evil and spiteful woman with a lack of morals and whose overambitious notions eventually lead to both her and her husband’s death. Karen, what I’ve seen so far from you is brilliant. I’m assured you’ll stick to my invited reading and desired depiction of Lady Macbeth. I look forward to seeing what you can come up with.
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