Macbeth
This performance utilizes Elizabethan costume and weaponry with minimal properties allowing complete focus on the language and visual presentation. Performances of key scenes from the play exploring the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth will be undertaken. Both the performance and interactive workshop develop a clear understanding of language and rhetorical devices inherent. The text is delivered clearly, both vocally and physically, ensuring that students will understand and connect with the story as it unfolds. Through the verse, we produce the enhanced levels of tension necessary to convey the dramatic action in this existential tragedy.
During the workshop session, we invite volunteer students to participate in elements of performance. Students are encouraged to try on costumes and speak parts of the text, immersing them in the historical and social contexts. There are many opportunities here, including recreating the witches’ scenes and other elements of physical theatre. It works very well for the students to recreate the banquet scene and then perform their work back to the main group.
As with all of our performances and workshops, we guarantee that students will be fully engaged.
Using practical techniques in associated workshops empowers students, develops core confidence, and emphasises excellent communication ability through speaking, listening, and body language.
