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Macbeth Education Resource a Timeless Tale of Betrayal, Power, Ambition and Greed Macbeth A TIMELESS TALE OF BETRAYAL, POWER, AMBITION AND GREED MACBETH EDUCATION RESOURCE A TIMELESS TALE OF BETRAYAL, POWER, AMBITION AND GREED MACBETH CAST PRODUCTION TEAM Macbeth Director Ross Gumbley Mark Hadlow Assistant Director Melanie Luckman Lady Macbeth Set Designer Harold Moot Lara Macgregor Costume Designer Tina Hutchison-Thomas Banquo / Seyton Tom Peters Lighting Designer Giles Tanner Sound Designer Henri Kerr Macduff Owen Black Properties Co-ordinator Christy Lassen Duncan / Doctor Stage Manager Ashlyn Smith Michael Keir-Morrissey Operators Sean Hawkins & Darren McKane Malcolm / Third Murderer Costume Manager Sarah Douglas Tola Newbery Workshop Manager Nigel Kerr Ross Production Manager Charlotte Lloyd Barry de Lore Education Manager Rachel Sears Lennox / Second Murderer / Siward Costume Construction Deborah Moor, Adam Brookfield Sarah Douglas, Louise Galloway Lady Macduff / Gentlewoman & Tina Hutchison-Thomas Kim Garrett Wig & Hair Stylist Sarah Greenwood Angus / First Murderer / Porter / Lord Set Construction Maurice Kidd, Richard Jared Corbin Daem, Henri Kerr, Richard van den Berg & Fleance / Young Siward / Rob Hood Macduff’s Son / Servant Properties Assistants Lydia Foate & Tom Worthington Danielle Ferreira Beckner Donalbain / Menteith / Servant Marketing & Communications Jack Marshall Rob Wiley & Wendy Riley First Witch Raewyn Lippert RUNNING TIME Second Witch Kathleen Burns 2 hours 17 minutes Third Witch including 20 minute interval Brylee Lockhart Acknowledgements Julie Ross, Rae Manson, Log Recording Ltd, Nathan Hall, Long Plastics, Lonely Peak Productions, Danielle Colvin Photography, Allison Horsley, Keren Oertly Ryan, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Jane Godfrey, Carpet King, Graham & Yukino Irving, the team at Fabric Store. MACBETH EDUCATION PACK | 2 MACBETH SYNOPSIS Following their success in battle, Macbeth objections and persuades him to kill the and Banquo meet the witches as they king that night. cross a moor. The witches prophesy While Duncan is asleep, Macbeth stabs that Macbeth will be made thane (a rank him, despite his doubts and a terrifying of nobility) of Cawdor and eventually vision of a bloody dagger. When Duncan’s King of Scotland. They also prophesy death is discovered the next morning that Banquo’s children will be kings. Macbeth easily assumes the kingship. The witches vanish, and Macbeth and Banquo are not sure what to think about King Duncan’s sons Malcolm and the witches’ prophecies. Some of King Donalbain flee, fearing that whoever killed Duncan’s men arrive and thank the two Duncan will want to kill them also. generals for their victories in battle, they Aware of the witches’ prophecy that tell Macbeth that he has been named Banquo’s children will be kings, Macbeth thane of Cawdor. Macbeth is intrigued by hires a group of murderers to kill Banquo the possibility that the remainder of the and his son Fleance. They ambush and witches’ prophecy—that he will be crowned slaughter Banquo but they fail to kill king—might be true. Fleance, who escapes into the night. Macbeth visits with King Duncan, and they Macbeth is furious: as long as Fleance is plan to eat together at Macbeth’s castle alive, he fears that his position as king is that night. Macbeth writes ahead to his insecure. wife, Lady Macbeth, telling her all that has That night at a royal feast, Banquo’s ghost happened. appears to Macbeth. When he sees the Lady Macbeth is excited by the news, ghost, Macbeth is terrified, despite Lady she strongly desires the kingship for her Macbeth trying to calm him Macbeth husband and wants him to murder King appears mad and unstable to his subjects Duncan in order to ensure the prophecy and they start to doubt his abilities as king. comes true. When Macbeth arrives Macbeth goes to visit the witches home, she overrides all of her husband’s hoping for reassurance. They show him MACBETH EDUCATION PACK | 3 MACBETH SYNOPSIS a sequence of demons and spirits who Meanwhile Lady Macbeth becomes present him with further prophecies: troubled with fits of sleepwalking in which she obsessively washes blood from her He must beware of Macduff, a Scottish hands. Before Macbeth’s opponents arrive, nobleman who opposed Macbeth’s Macbeth receives news that she has killed accession to the throne. herself, causing him to sink into a deep He is incapable of being harmed by any despair. man born of woman Macbeth is struck with fear when he learns He will be safe until Birnam Wood comes to that the opposing army is advancing on Dunsinane Castle. Dunsinane camouflaged as Birnam Wood, Macbeth is relieved because he knows the wood is indeed coming to Dunsinane, that all men are born of women and that this fulfills half of the witches’ prophecy. forests cannot move. When he learns On the battlefield, Macbeth meets Macduff, that Macduff has fled to England to join who declares that he was not “of woman Malcolm (King Duncan’s son), Macbeth born” but was instead “untimely ripped” orders that Macduff’s home be seized and from his mother’s womb (what we now that Lady Macduff and her children are call birth by caesarean section). Macbeth murdered. realises he is doomed and Macduff kills When Macduff finds out about this attack, him. he is angry and vows revenge. Prince Malcolm, now the King of Scotland, Malcolm has raised an army and Macduff declares his good intentions for the joins him to challenge Macbeth’s forces. country and invites all to see him crowned. MACBETH EDUCATION PACK | 4 Direction An interview with Ross Gumbley, the Watch Video: What is it about? Director of The Court Theatre’s production of Macbeth. For videos visit www. DISCUSS: How well do you think The Court Theatre’s CourtTheatre.org.nz/education/resources. production of Macbeth evokes the idea of Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair? Watch Video: A Brief History – Social, Cultural and Historical DISCUSS: Context In the play soliloquies are used to share DISCUSS: with the audiences the deepest desires 1: What do you think about the choices and internal conflicts of the characters. made in staging this production of Imagine we took away all the soliloquies. Macbeth? What difference would this make to the production? 2 How does a contemporary audience differ to an Elizabethan audience? ACTIVITY: Watch Video: The Cast In groups do some research into the reign of King James I of England with each DISCUSS: group focusing on one area of his reign Imagine Macbeth was being played by an actor who was school aged? How does this 1: Witch Craft impact on your reading of the character? 2: Religion 3: The Divine rights of Kings 4: The gunpowder plot Watch Video: What is it about? Create a presentation to your class sharing DISCUSS: your findings about this time period. What How are Theatre Technologies used in does your research tell you about how The Court Theatre’s production to help the the play might have been received in its audience understand the context of the historical context? play? MACBETH EDUCATION PACK | 5 CONTEXT: ACTIVITY: Working in small groups, using the timeline and your knowledge of the play, find 5 key points from the timeline that are most relevant to the content of the play. Share these with the rest of your class and compare the similarities and differences in your answers. 1040-1057 1542 1564 24 July 1567 August 1582 1583 The reign of Henry VII’s William Shakespeare Mary, Queen of Ruthven Raid: Throckmorton Macbeth, King Witchcraft Act 1542: was born to tanner Scots forced Protestant Plot: attempt to of Scotland - first Act to define John and Mary to abdicate earls lured murder Elizabeth nicknamed witchcraft as a Shakespeare in in favour of James VI into I and replace her ’The Red King’. crime punishable by Stratford-upon- her infant son Ruthven Castle & with Mary, Queen death. Avon. James. imprisoned him. of Scots. 1000s 1500s 1563 19 June 1566 29 July 1567 27 November 1585-1592 The Scottish Charles James 13 month old 1582 Shakespeare Witchcraft Act 1563: Stuart born to Charles James 18 year old William left his family in practice of witchcraft Mary, Queen of Stuart became Shakespeare Stratford to join a & consulting with Scots. King James VI of married 26 year old company of actors witches declared Scotland. Anne Hathaway. as playwright & capital offences. performer. MACBETH EDUCATION PACK | 6 1586 1589-1590 1597 1600-1601 July 1603 1605 3 May 1606 Babington Shakespeare James VI wrote Shakespeare Main Plot: Gunpowder The Plot: attempt believed to Daemonologie, is thought Conspiracy by Plot: Failed ‘equivocator’, to murder have written a book to have English courtiers assassination Father Henry Elizabeth I and his very first endorsing the composed to remove attempt on Garnett, replace her with play, Henry VI, practice of Hamlet, James I from the James I by executed. Mary, Queen of Part One. witch hunting. arguably his English throne & provincial Scots. greatest play. replace him with English his cousin. Catholics. 1600s 6 July 1586 1590 24 March 1604 1606 7 August 1606 Treaty of Great Scottish Witch 1603 Witchcraft Macbeth Macbeth was first Berwick: peace Hunt: ran for two years Elizabeth I died Act 1604: believed to performed for agreement & implicated 70 people and James VI death penalty have been King James I in signed between including James VI’s of Scotland for anyone written. the Great Hall at Elizabeth I & first cousin. crowned James who invoked Hampton Court James VI. I of England. evil spirits or Palace. communed with familiar spirits. MACBETH EDUCATION PACK | 7 TEXTURAL Appropriation: How Shakespeare Twisted History in Macbeth The gripping story of Macbeth has been adapted across entertainment mediums throughout the world because of its seemingly evergreen warning of the dangers of political greed. Among the most successful and best known cultural adaptations of Macbeth are Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 film Throne of Blood and Tom Stoppard’s play Cahoot’s Macbeth.
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