Final Session – Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” – 2 scenes – The Rehearsal Room [Video, Audio, and Transcript versions]
Description
</figure>What happened in the Final Session?
🏁 In our fourth and final week, highlights include:
- The warrior character of Macbeth and comedic moments with Lady Macbeth
- Diving into the imagery of “spongy officers”
- Analyzing the power dynamics in relationships
- A Q&A with the artists!
Watch the Final Session!
Full transcript included at the bottom of this post.
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Short on time?
Check out this 50-second clip where director Nick Cagle shares why he loves the character and poetry in MACBETH.
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THE SCENE
Our group will be working on Act 1, Scene 7 and Act 2, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
We’ll explore the relationship of MACBETH and LADY MACBETH:
- Macbeth questioning Duncan’s murder and Lady Macbeth creating a plan
- Macbeth returning from Duncan’s murder, horrified by what he’s done
Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here.
Macbeth Team – we have artists in LA, San Diego and Hawaii
- DIRECTOR: Nick Cagle
- DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport
- MACBETH: Mark Lawson
- LADY MACBETH: Meaghan Boeing
Read more about the artists here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:
- Appreciating Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated
- Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline
And there’s more!
Catch up on our other workshops featuring lots of Shakespeare scenes, from Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, Midsummer, As You Like It, and our Twelfth Night repertory extravaganza – all on the podcast and YouTube. If you’ve missed any presentations thus far, click here to find them all.
Nathan Agin
Hi there. I’m Nathan Agin and welcome back to the Working Actors Journey Rehearsal Room. We’ve been working on a couple scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth this month, and we are wrapping up things with this fourth session. If you’ve been following along watching the





