Wednesday 24 October 2012

Macbeth-The Royal Shakespeare Company

I love Shakespeare, so every play I have seen by him I instantly fall in love with. I have seen a several plays by Shakespeare and this one I have to admit, was not my favourite. The company comes once every school year to my school. I thought that the actors portrayal of the characters was fantastic. Nevertheless, they could have made more use of the props that they had brought. The theatre company invited us and the audience to take part. I thought that making the audience play a part was risky because there were a lot of children to manage with only 5 actors. However, they pulled it off well by taking a group at a time to speak.
Lady Macbeth has a terrible plot to murder the king of Scotland so that Macbeth can be king. Once Macbeth agrees and kills the king he leaves a filthy trail of blood and guilt on the innocent guards hands. He succeeds in becoming King, kills his BFF Banquo, with a few extra kicks (which I won't tell you about now). He is feeling like a guilty murderer who is accusing a poor beggar man.
Macbeth has hallucinations of Banquo sitting at his throne with pernicious eyes...(dun dun dun!!!)

Lady Macbeth starts sleepwalking and is caught by a servant washing her hands and saying that Banquo cannot reappear from his grave.The servant informs Macduff of this who has an army to help fight Macbeth off.
I don't want to spoil a frightful ending but please remember, that if you ever see it, bring your snuggleuppet!!>>>:)

Read, be inspired and write!
Malini

4 comments:

  1. Hi Malini - great blog! I agree the actors were pretty brave taking on all the kids, but I also bet you put in a fantastic performance.
    Do some more book-reviewing I want to know what you think!
    keep writing...

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  2. Hi Malini- cool I think your wright about shakespear he is wicked
    Livy

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  3. Hi Olivia,
    I agree with you entirely !
    Did you read my other shakespeare post???
    Malini
    xoxox

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  4. I have not seen a theatrical of Macbeth but my favorite part when I had read it was the 3 witches . 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair'- unforgettable!

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