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Week 3 – Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” – 2 scenes – The Rehearsal Room [Video, Audio, and Transcript versions]
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</figure>What happened in Week 3?
🏁 In our third week, highlights include:
- The use of hypotheticals and future tenses
- What “the poor cat in the adage” really means
- The staccato delivery in Lady Macbeth’s lines
Plus – could Macbeth become a Christmas play?? 🎄🤶
Watch the Week 3 Session!
Full transcript included at the bottom of this post.
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</figure>And there’s the audio version too – you still get everything from listening!
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Short on time?
Check out this 50-second clip where dramaturg Gideon Rappaport and director Nick Cagle discuss the SOUNDS of Shakespeare!
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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 everybody, Nathan here. Welcome back for our third session as we explore a couple scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth looking at the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, husband and wife, both before and after the murder of Duncan. This is your first session. Hang out, check it out. Enjoy. And then definitely go back and watch weeks one and two. T
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