Y5’s Performance of
Macbeth
Abridged
from
‘Macbeth’
by
William Shakespeare
Draft 2
Year 5’s Performance of Macbeth – draft 1
by William Shakespeare
Abridged
Characters
Duncan, King of Scotland
Malcolm, his son
Macbeth, a general in the King’s army
Banquo, a general in the King’s army (Banquo played by 2 people)
Ross, a nobleman
Lennox, a nobleman
Fleance, Banquo’s son
Siward, the English general
Seyton, an officer of Macbeth
Doctor
Lady Macbeth
Macduff, Thane of Fife
Lady Macduff
Gentlewoman, attending Lady Macbeth
3 sets of witches!
First Witch
Second Witch
Third Witch
Two Assassins
Two Witches’ Familiars
Messenger
Servants
Lords
Soldiers
Macduff’s young Son
Apparitions (see production notes)
Off-stage voices
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Scene 1.
Sound of Silence
(Enter children in army. Children freeze stage left in battle positions. Thunder and lightning.
Enter three Witches stage right.)
WITCH GROUP 1
First Witch:
When shall we three meet again,
In thunder, lightning or in rain?
Second Witch: When the battle’s lost and won.
Third Witch:
That will be ‘ere the set of sun.
First Witch:
Where the place?
Second Witch: Upon the heath.
Third Witch:
There to meet with Macbeth.
All:
Fair is foul and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
(Witches freeze.)
Scene 2.
Witches Familiar 1: These three witches wait so patiently to meet
Macbeth a man who fights upon the rainy heath.
Rich Macbeth’s the Thane of Glamis and
His wife and he own money and some land
He fights right now a battle for his king
A victory would end men’s suffering.
He hopes his king will see him as best Lord.
And give him a new title as reward.
Witches’ Familiar 2: Yes yes although a Thane of Galmis he is.
He hopes ‘Thane of Cawdaw” will be his!
He knows the Thane of Cawdaw is a traitor.
So he’s fighting this disloyal king-hater.
Maybe two titles will be his b’fore long
Double castles and fortunes can’t be wrong!
(Trumpet calls and drums. Enter Duncan, Malcolm and Lennox. They look toward the noise of
battle.)
(Thunder
and lightning. All enact battle scene and we see Macbeth directing the battle and obviously
victorious. We all chant below as we fight)
Hands on your shields feel the rhythm of the blow
Hands on flesh feel the rhythm of your foe
Hands on your blade feel the rhythm of a knife
Hands on your armour feel the rhythm of your life
Hands on the sky feel the rhythm of the rain
Hands on your heart feel the beat and strain
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Hands t’ward your leader feel the rhythm of power
Hands t’ward heavens feel the rhythm of the shower
Hands t’ward the darkness feel the day draw late
Tock tock tock tock
Hands t’ward the future feel the rhythm of fate
Tock tock tock tock
Hands t’ward the future feel the rhythm of fate
Tock tock tock tock
Hands t’ward the future feel the rhythm of fate
Duncan:
Who comes here?
Malcolm:
The thane of Ross.
(Enter Ross, wounded.)
Ross:
God save the King!
Malcolm:
Hail, brave friend;
Say to the king of the revolt the newest state.
Ross:
The Norwegian king with terrible numbers,
Assisted by the treach’rous thane of Cawdor,
Began a dire assault. But our captains,
Macbeth and Banquo, doubly redoubled
Their strokes upon the foe. Macbeth confronted
Cawdor, arm against arm, point against point,
And, to conclude, the victory fell on us!
Duncan:
Great happiness!
Go pronounce the thane of Cawdor’s present death,
And with his former title greet Macbeth.
(Exeunt.)
Scene 3. WITCH GROUP 2
(Thunder. Three witches unfreeze.)
First Witch:
Where hast thou been, sister?
Second Witch: (Showing her bloodied hands) Killing swine.
First Witch:
(Showing it) Here I have a pilot’s thumb,
Wrecked as homeward he did come.
(A drum sounds.)
Third Witch:
A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come!
Witches:
(Dancing in a circle)
Thus we go, about, about:
Thrice to thine and thrice to mine,
And thrice again, to make up nine:
Peace! – the charm’s wound up!
(They retire. Enter Macbeth and Banquo.)
Macbeth:
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
Banquo:
(Seeing the witches and stopping)
Who are you, so withered and so wild?
Witches:
(Putting their fingers to their lips) Shhh!
Macbeth:
(Crossing to them) Speak, if you can; - what are you?
First Witch:
All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!
Second Witch: All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!
Third Witch:
All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter!
(Macbeth starts and moves away, lost in thought.)
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Banquo:
(Crossing to them) Macbeth you greet with great and royal hope;
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear you.
First Witch:
Hail, Banquo! Lesser than Macbeth, and greater!
Second Witch: Your children shall be kings, though thou be none!
Third Witch:
So all hail, Banquo and Macbeth!
Macbeth:
Stay, tell me more; I am thane of Glamis,
But the thane of Cawdor lives; and to be king
Stands not within the prospect of belief. Speak!
(Thunder and lightning. Exeunt Witches.)
Macbeth:
Your children shall be kings.
Banquo:
You shall be king.
Macbeth:
And thane of Cawdor too; went it not so?
(Enter Ross with a message for Macbeth.)
Ross:
Macbeth, the king hath received the happy news
Of thy success, and as an earnest of his thanks,
He bade me call thee thane of Cawdor. Hail, worthy thane!
Macbeth:
But the thane of Cawdor lives.
Ross:
Who was the thane lives yet,
But treasons capital have overthrown him.
Macbeth:
(Aside) Glamis and Cawdor: the greatest is behind;
But why do I yield to that suggestion,
Whose murd’rous image shakes my very heart?
Banquo:
Worthy Macbeth, we stay for you.
Macbeth:
Give me your favour - let us toward the king.
(Exeunt.)
Witches’ Familiar 1: So Macbeth is now Cawdor’s Thane
The witches had predicted this by name
They said some strange things to Banquo
That his own children would rise from low.
Witches’ Familiar 2: What else did they cackle in Macbeth’s ear?
He’d be the king? That can’t be clear!
Duncan’s been king for years and years.
Witches’ Familiar 1: but possibility appears…
Witches’ Familiar 2: To be the king Macbeth would have to… no!
Witches’ Familiar 1: Shhhhhhh… you’ll ruin the show!
Destiny song
Scene 4.
(Fanfare. Enter Duncan, Malcolm and Lennox.)
Duncan:
Is execution done on Cawdor?
Malcolm:
It is, my liege. He confess’d his treasons
And implored your highness’ humble pardon.
Duncan:
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.
(Enter Macbeth, Banquo and Ross.)
Duncan:
(Embracing Macbeth) Worthy cousin! All I have left to say:
More is thy due than more than all can pay.
Macbeth:
The service and the loyalty I owe
To you and yours, in doing it, pays itself
Duncan:
Welcome hither. Noble Banquo, that hath
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No less deserv’d, let me infold thee. (Embracing him.)
Kinsmen, thanes, know that we name our eldest,
Malcolm, our heir and Prince of Cumberland. (Gesturing.)
And now from hence to Inverness!
Macbeth:
I’ll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful
The hearing of my wife with your approach.
(He bows and moves to the exit. Duncan and Banquo converse silently.)
Macbeth:
(Aside) The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step
I must o’erleap. Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires. (Exit.)
Duncan:
True, worthy Banquo – he is a peerless kinsman;
Let’s after him.
(Fanfare. Exeunt.)
Scene 5.
(Enter Lady Macbeth with a letter.)
Lady Macbeth: (Reading) ‘They vanished into air. While I stood rapt in wonder, missives from
the king hailed me as “Thane of Cawdor”, by which title the weird sisters had saluted me, and
referr’d me to the coming on of time with “Hail, king that shalt be.”
I do fear thy nature: it is too full
Of the milk of human kindness. Hie thee hither,
That I may chastise with the valour of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round
Which fate doth seem to have thee crown’d withal.
(A Servant runs in.)
Servant:
The king comes here tonight!
Lady Macbeth: Thou’rt mad to say it!
Servant:
So please you, it is true: our thane is coming.
Lady Macbeth: Go: you bring great news.
(Exit Servant.)
(Birds crow harshly.)
Lady Macbeth: The ravens croak
The fatal entrance of Duncan here tonight.
Come, you spirits: unsex me here;
Fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty. Come, thick night,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes.
(Macbeth enters. She hurries to him and embraces him)
Lady Macbeth: Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor!
Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!
Macbeth:
My dearest love, Duncan comes here tonight.
Lady Macbeth: And when goes hence?
Macbeth:
Tomorrow, as he purposes.
Lady Macbeth: O never shall sun that morrow see!
He must be provided for, and you shall put
This night’s great business under my dispatch
Macbeth:
We will speak further.
Lady Macbeth: Leave all the rest to me.
(Exeunt.)
Witches’ Familiar 1: (whispering/hissing) Lady Macbeth has the future seen.
She wants Macbeth as king and she as queen.
Witches’ Familiar 2: But first the noble king they have to kill.
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Will Macbeth really have the heart and will.
Witches’ Familiar 1: The Lady thinks it’s easy, thinks it’s fate!
She has persuaded him that it’s too late.
To turn back now the crown must drop on him.
Witches’ Familiar 2: But murder is a dark and heavy sin…
Scene 6.
(Pleasant music. Enter Duncan, Malcolm, Banquo, Ross and Macduff.)
Duncan:
(Looking round and smiling) This castle has a pleasant seat;
The heaven’s breath smells wooingly here.
(Enter Lady Macbeth. The music fades.)
Duncan:
See, see, our honour’d hostess!
Fair lady, we are your guest tonight.
Lady Macbeth: (Curtsying) All our service
In every point twice done cannot contend
With the honours with which you load our house.
Duncan:
Conduct me to mine host; we love him highly,
And shall continue our graces towards him.
(Exeunt.)
Scene 7.
( The king etc. are enjoying an evening of feasting. Enter Macbeth. )
Macbeth:
I am his kinsman, his subject and his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself. I have no spur
But vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls o’ th’other.
(Enter Lady Macbeth.)
Lady Macbeth: He has almost supp’d: why have you left the chamber?
Macbeth:
We will proceed no further in this business.
He hath honour’d me of late, and I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people.
Lady Macbeth: Art thou afeard?
Wouldst thou live a coward in thine own esteem?
Macbeth:
I dare do all that may become a man.
Lady Macbeth: When you durst do it, then you were a man.
Macbeth:
But if we should fail?
Lady Macbeth: We’ll not fail. I’ll ply his chamberlains with wine;
Then what cannot you and I perform
Upon the unguarded Duncan?
Macbeth:
If we mark them with blood and use their daggers,
Will’t not be received that they have done it?
Lady Macbeth: Who dares receive it other?
Macbeth:
I am settled.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
(Exeunt.)
Scene 8.
Banquo:
Fleance:
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How goes the night, boy?
The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.
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Banquo:
And she goes down at twelve.
Fleance:
I take it, ‘tis later, sir.
Banquo:
(Alarmed, drawing his sword) Who’s there?
(Enter Macbeth and a Servant.)
Macbeth:
A friend.
Banquo:
What, sir, not yet at rest? The king’s a-bed.
And shut up in measureless content.
(Taking Macbeth aside) I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters.
Macbeth:
I think not of them. Good repose the while!
Banquo:
Thanks, sir: the like to you!
(Exeunt Banquo and Fleance.)
Macbeth:
Go tell thy mistress, when my drink is ready
She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.
(Exit Servant.)
Macbeth:
Is this a dagger which I see before me?
(Trying to grasp it) I have thee not and yet I see thee still,
As real as this which now I draw,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
(Trying to grasp it again) There’s no such thing. (A bell rings.)
The bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell. (Exit.)
Scene 9.
(Enter Lady Macbeth.)
Lady Macbeth: (Looking off-stage.) He is about it. I have drugged the grooms,
Who mock their charge with snores.
Macbeth:
(Off) Who’s there? what, ho!
Lady Macbeth: Alack, I am afraid they have awaked
And ‘tis not done. I laid their daggers ready;
He could not miss ‘em. My husband!
(Enter Macbeth, carrying the daggers.)
Macbeth:
I have done the deed; didst thou not hear a noise?
Lady Macbeth: I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
Macbeth:
Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Macbeth
Doth murder sleep! Macbeth shall sleep no more!’
Lady Macbeth: Who was it thus cried? Go get some water,
And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
Go carry them, and smear the grooms with blood.
Macbeth:
I’ll go no more; look on’t again I dare not.
Lady Macbeth: Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers! (Exit.)
(Loud knocking on the outer door.)
Macbeth:
Whence is that knocking? How is’t with me
When every noise appals me?
(He stands, dazed, staring at his hands. More knocking. Re-enter Lady Macbeth with blood on
her hands.)
Lady Macbeth: Retire we to our chamber; a little water
Clears us of this deed. (Urging him.)
Come! Be not lost so poorly in your thoughts!
(Exeunt.)
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Scene 10.
(Knocking. A Servant hurries across. More knocking. He opens the gate. Enter Macduff and
Lennox.)
Macduff:
Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed?
Servant:
Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock.
Macduff:
Our knocking has awaked your master – here he comes.
(Enter Macbeth.)
Macbeth:
Good morrow, both.
Macduff:
The king commanded me to call timely on him.
Macbeth:
(Indicating)
There is the door.
(Exit Macduff.)
Lennox;
The night has been unruly; where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Strange screams of death.
Macduff:
(Off) Horror! (Entering) Sacrilegious murder!
Macbeth:
} (Together)
Lennox:
} What’s the matter?
Macduff:
Approach the chamber, and then speak yourselves!
(Exeunt Macbeth and Lennox.)
Macduff:
Ring the alarum bell! Awake! murder! treason!
(A bell starts tolling.)
(Enter Lady Macbeth.)
Lady Macbeth: What’s the business?
(Enter Banquo.)
Macduff:
Banquo, our royal master’s murdered!
Lady Macbeth: Woe, alas!
(Enter Macbeth and Lennox.)
Banquo:
Say it is not so!
Macbeth:
Renown and grace is dead.
(Enter Malcolm.)
Malcolm:
What’s amiss?
Macduff:
Your royal father’s murdered.
Malcolm:
O, by whom?
Lennox:
His grooms, it seems; their hands and faces
Were badg’d with blood, so were their daggers.
Macbeth:
O, yet I repent that I did kill them.
(The bell stops. All stare at Macbeth.)
Macduff:
Why did you do so?
Macbeth:
Who could refrain? here lay Duncan, stabbed, gashed;
And there his murderers, their daggers breech’d with gore Lady Macbeth: Help me hence!
Macduff:
Look to the lady.
(The Servant helps Lady Macbeth out.)
Banquo:
(Staring at Macbeth) In the hand of God I stand,
And fight against the undivulged pretence
Of treasonous malice!
Macduff:
(Standing with Banquo) And so do I.
Macbeth:
(Staring at them) Let us meet in the hall together,
And question this most bloody piece of work.
All:
Well contented.
(Exeunt all but Malcolm. As he leaves, Macbeth gives him a thin smile.)
Malcolm:
Where I am, there’s daggers in men’s smiles;
I’ll not consort with them: I’ll flee to England. (Exit.)
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Viva La Vida – song – as Macbeth is crowned!
Scene 11.
(Enter Banquo.2 – Banquo 2 from now on)
Banquo:
Thou hast it now – king, Cawdor, Glamis, all
As the weird sisters promised; and, I fear,
Thou play’dst most foully for it. But hush, no more.
(Enter Macbeth, as King.)
Macbeth:
Ride you this afternoon?
Banquo:
Ay, my good lord.
Macbeth:
Tonight we hold a solemn supper, sir, and
We request your presence. Is’t far you ride?
Banquo:
As far as will fill the time till then;
I must ride for a dark hour or twain.
Macbeth:
Hie you to horse: adieu.
(Banquo starts for the exit.)
Macbeth:
Goes Fleance with you?
Banquo:
Ay, my good lord. (Exit.)
Macbeth:
(Calling) Fail not our feast!
Banquo:
(Off, calling) My lord, I will not!
Macbeth:
There’s none but Banquo whom I fear; the sisters
All-hailed him father to a line of kings. (Calling) Who’s there?
(Enter Assassins. They bow.)
Macbeth:
(Pointing off-stage) Both of you know Banquo is your enemy.
Assassin:
Ay, my lord.
Macbeth:
So is he mine.
Assassin 1:
We shall, my lord, perform what you command.
Macbeth:
It must be tonight, and some way from the palace.
And Fleance, his son, that keeps him company,
Must embrace the fate of that dark hour. Go.
(The Murderers bow and exeunt.)
Witches’ Familiar 1: What’s this! Macbeth another murder plans
Has he not got enough blood on his hands?
Witches’ Familiar 2: His good friend Banquo stands right in his way.
He cannot let him live if king he’ll stay…
- Assassin Rap (Enter Lady Macbeth, as Queen.)
Lady Macbeth: (Taking his hand)) Come on my lord; be bright and jovial
Among your guests tonight.
Macbeth:
(Pulling away) O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife;
Tonight shall be done a deed of dreadful note.
Lady Macbeth: You must leave this! What’s to be done?
Macbeth:
Be innocent of it till you applaud the deed.
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
Come.
(Exeunt.)
Scene 12.
(An owl hoots. Enter the Assassins, shivering with cold.)
Assassin 1:
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:
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Now spurs the lated traveller apace.
Assassin 2:
Hark, I hear them.
Banquo:
(Off) Give us a light there, ho!
Assassin 1:
(Pointing) A light, a light!
Assassin 2:
‘Tis he.
Assassin 1:
Stand to’t.
(They draw their daggers and retire.)
(Enter Banquo and Fleance with a torch.)
Banquo:
(Looking up) It will be rain tonight.
Assassin 1:
Let it come down!
(They assault Banquo, while Fleance stands, terrified.)
Banquo:
O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Thou may’st revenge - O slave!
(Fleance escapes.)
Assassin 1:
Where is the light?
Assassin 2:
There’s but one down: the son is fled.
Assassin 1:
Well, let’s away, and say how much is done. (Exeunt.)
Scene 13.
(A banquet prepared. Enter Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Ross, Lennox and Lords.)
Macbeth:
(By the entrance) Sit down: at first and last a hearty welcome.
Be large in mirth; anon we’ll drink a measure the table round.
(Assassin 1 appears in the entrance behind Macbeth,)
Macbeth:
(After a brief glance) There’s blood upon thy face.
Assassin 1:
‘Tis Banquo’s, then.
I cut his throat for him; safe in a ditch he lies,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head.
Macbeth:
And Fleance?
Assassin 1:
He escaped.
Macbeth:
Ha! The worm will venom breed. Get thee gone.
(Exit Assassin.)
Lennox:
May’t please your highness sit.
(all freeze)
Witches’ Familiar 1: Would do us well to see through Macbeth’s eyes.
We need to see how madness spreads from lies.
Witches’ Familiar 2: The murder has infected Macbeth’s brain.
With guilt ‘pon guilt I fear he’s gone insane…
(Ghostly music – Bulalow from ceremony of Carols? & contemporary
dance.)
The Ghost of Banquo appears and crashes through the dancers, hurling things about. He tries to
sit by Macbeth. ONLY MACBETH CAN SEE THE GHOST)
Macbeth:
The table’s full.
Lennox:
(Gesturing towards the Ghost) Here is a place reserved, sir.
Macbeth:
(Staring, horrified) Which of you have done this?
All:
What, my good lord?
Macbeth:
(Backing away) Thou canst not say I did it!
Ross:
Gentlemen, rise; his highness is not well.
Lady Macbeth: Sit, worthy friends; my lord is often thus.
(Crossing) Shame itself! Why do you make such faces?
Macbeth:
See there! behold! look! If thou canst nod, speak too!
(The Ghost disappears. )
Lady Macbeth: What, quite unmann’d in folly?
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Macbeth:
If I stand here, I saw him!
(Moving away, to himself) The time has been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
But now they rise again and push us from our stools.
Lady Macbeth: My worthy lord, your noble friends do lack you.
Macbeth:
(Recovering) Most worthy friends, I have a strange infirmity,
Which is nothing to those that know me.
(Raising a goblet) I drink to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss!
(All raise their goblets. The Ghost reappears.)
Macbeth:
Avaunt and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble. Hence, horrible shadow!
(The Ghost vanishes. )
Macbeth:
How can you all can behold such sights?
Ross:
What sights, my lord?
Lady Macbeth: Speak not to him, but go at once!
Witches’ Familiar 1: We must rewind turn back the time must we
The real events that Macbeth’s guests did see
Perhaps the haunting was all in his mind
Let’s take a look back truth to find.
(Re-do all the lines from the banquet but this time start with normal Tudor dance.)
Scene 13 – again!
(A banquet prepared. Enter Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Ross, Lennox and Lords.)
Macbeth:
(By the entrance) Sit down: at first and last a hearty welcome.
Be large in mirth; anon we’ll drink a measure the table round.
(Assassin 1 appears in the entrance behind Macbeth,)
Macbeth:
(After a brief glance) There’s blood upon thy face.
Assassin 1:
‘Tis Banquo’s, then.
I cut his throat for him; safe in a ditch he lies,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head.
Macbeth:
And Fleance?
Assassin 1:
He escaped.
Macbeth:
Ha! The worm will venom breed. Get thee gone.
(Exit Assassin.)
Lennox:
May’t please your highness sit.
(Macbeth speaks as though there were a ghost there)
Macbeth:
The table’s full.
Lennox:
(Gesturing towards the Ghost) Here is a place reserved, sir.
Macbeth:
(Staring, horrified) Which of you have done this?
All:
What, my good lord?
Macbeth:
(Backing away) Thou canst not say I did it!
Ross:
Gentlemen, rise; his highness is not well.
Lady Macbeth: Sit, worthy friends; my lord is often thus.
(Crossing) Shame itself! Why do you make such faces?
Macbeth:
See there! behold! look! If thou canst nod, speak too!
Lady Macbeth: What, quite unmann’d in folly?
Macbeth:
If I stand here, I saw him!
(Moving away, to himself) The time has been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
But now they rise again and push us from our stools.
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Lady Macbeth: My worthy lord, your noble friends do lack you.
Macbeth:
(Recovering) Most worthy friends, I have a strange infirmity,
Which is nothing to those that know me.
(Raising a goblet) I drink to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss!
(All raise their goblets.)
Macbeth:
Avaunt and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble. Hence, horrible shadow!
Macbeth:
How can you all can behold such sights?
Ross:
What sights, my lord?
Lady Macbeth: Speak not to him, but go at once!
(Exeunt all but Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.)
Macbeth:
How say’st thou, that Macduff denies his person
At our great bidding?
Lady Macbeth: Did you send for him, sir?
Macbeth:
(Nodding) I will tomorrow to the weird sisters.
Strange things I have in head that will to hand,
Which must be acted ere they may be scann’d. Come.
(Exeunt.)
Scene 14.
(Enter Lennox and a Lord.)
Lord:
I hear Macduff lives in disgrace, because
He failed his presence at the tyrant’s feast.
Lennox:
The son of Duncan lives in the English court;
There Macduff is gone to pray King Edward
To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward,
That with their aid we may free from our feasts
And banquets bloody knives, and do free homage.
And this report hath so exasperate Macbeth
That he prepares for war.
Lord:
May a swift blessing
Soon return to this our suff’ring country!
(Exeunt.)
Witches’ Familiar 1: Macbeth is blaming all the murders on
Poor Malcolm who’s in England on the run.
Witches’ Familiar 2: Macduff has fled and both are poised to fight
Macbeth who really has no kingly right!
Witches’ Familiar 1: So Macbeth will seek good advice from lords
Some generals or those who’ve fought in wars?
Witches’ Familiar 2: Oh no, of course that would make too much sense.
He’s gone back to the 3 weird sisters… hence… (point to them)
Scene 15. WITCH GROUP 2
(Thunder. Enter the three Witches. They gather round.)
Witches:
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire, burn, and cauldron bubble.
First Witch:
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake.
Second Witch: Eye of newt and toe of frog,
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Third Witch:
Wool of bat and tongue of dog First Witch:
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
-
Weird Sisters Song -
Witches:
Open, locks, whoever knocks!
(Enter Macbeth.)
Macbeth:
How now, you secret, black and midnight hags!
I conjure you, by that which you profess, Howe’er you come to know it, - answer me!
First Witch:
Would’st hear it from our mouths or from our masters?
Macbeth:
Let me see ‘em!
(Thunder. First Apparition appears: an armed head.)
Apparition 1:
Macbeth, Macbeth! beware Macduff;
Beware the thane of Fife! - enough! (Descends.)
Macbeth:
Tell me, thou unknown power First Witch:
Shhh! Here’s another, more potent than the first.
(Thunder. Second Apparition appears: a bloody child.)
Apparition 2:
Macbeth! Be bloody, bold and resolute!
None of woman born shall harm Macbeth! (Descends.)
Macbeth:
Then, Macduff, what need I fear of thee?
Yet, to make double sure, thou shalt not live.
(Thunder. Third Apparition appears: a Child crowned, with a tree in its hand.)
Apparition 3:
Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until
Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill
Shall come against him. (Descends.)
Macbeth:
That will never be!
Macbeth shall live till Birnam Wood shall move!
Yet my heart throbs to know one thing:
Shall Banquo’s issue ever rule this land?
Witches:
Show his eyes and grieve his heart;
Come like shadows, so depart!
(Eight kings appear, one after another.)
Macbeth:
Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo; down!
The third is like the former! A fourth!
Will the line stretch out to th’crack of doom?
Another yet? A seventh! An eighth!
(Banquo’s ghost follows, smiling and pointing at them.)
Macbeth:
Now the blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me
And points at them for his. What, is this so?
(Thunder. The Apparitions and the Witches disappear.)
Macbeth:
Where are they? (Calling) Come in there!
(Enter Lennox.)
Macbeth:
Saw you the weird sisters?
Lennox:
No, my lord.
Macbeth:
I heard the galloping of horse: who came by?
Lennox:
They brought word, sir: Macduff is fled to England.
Macbeth:
Seize upon Fife! put to the sword his wife
And all his babes! Go: see it done!
(Exeunt.)
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Scene 16.
(Enter Lady Macduff, her Son, and Ross.)
Lady Macduff: What had he done, to make him fly the land To leave his wife, to leave his babes, his mansion?
Ross:
I dare not speak further, nor stay longer,
But cruel are the times, when we are traitors
And do not know ourselves. Blessing upon you! (Exit.)
Son:
Was my father a traitor, mother?
Lady Macduff: Ay, that he was.
Son:
What is a traitor?
Lady Macduff: One that swears and lies. Everyone that does so
Is a traitor, and must be hang’d.
Servant:
(Calling, off) My lady!
(Enter Servant, in haste)
Servant:
I doubt some danger does approach you nearly;
Hence, with your little ones! I dare no longer stay;
Heaven preserve you! (Exit.)
Lady Macduff: Whither should I fly?
(The two Murderers appear, one at each side.)
Lady Macduff: What are these faces?
Murderer 1:
Where is your husband?
Lady Macduff: In no place where such as you may find him.
Murderer 2:
He’s a traitor!
Son:
Thou liest, thou shag-hair’d villain!
Murderer 2:
(Drawing his dagger) What, young fry of treachery!
(He chases the boy offstage.)
Son:
(Off, screaming) O! He has kill’d me, mother! Run away!
Lady Macduff: (Exiting) Murder!
(She is pursued by the Murderers.)
Scene 17.
(Enter Malcolm and Macduff.)
Malcolm:
Poor Scotland sinks beneath the tyrant’s yoke;
Each morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry,
And new sorrows strike heaven in the face.
I know that hands would lift up in my right,
And here in England have I offer
From old Siward of ten thousand men.
(Enter Ross.)
Macduff:
My ever-gentle cousin, welcome here.
Stands Scotland where it did?
Ross:
Alas, poor country!
Macduff:
How does my wife?
Ross:
(After a slight pause) Why, well.
Macduff:
And all my children?
Ross:
They were well at peace when I did leave ‘em.
Malcolm:
Be not a niggard of your speech: how goes it?
Ross:
Now is the time of help; your eye in Scotland
Would create soldiers, make our women fight.
Malcolm:
Be’t their comfort that we are coming thither.
Ross:
(To Macduff) I have other words that should be howled out
In the desert air where hearing could not latch ‘em.
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Macduff:
Keep it not from me, quickly let me have it.
Ross:
Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes
Savagely slaughtered.
Macduff:
Gentle heavens,
Front to front bring thou this fiend of Scotland
And myself; within my sword’s length set him!
Malcolm:
Come, our power is ready; Macbeth is ripe
For shaking; Receive what cheer you may:
The night is long that never finds the day.
(War drums. Exeunt.)
Scene 18.
(Enter a Doctor and a Gentlewoman.)
Gentlewoman: Since the king went into the field, I have seen her majesty rise from her bed, take
forth paper, write upon it and return to bed, yet all this while fast asleep. Lo, here she comes.
(They retire. Enter Lady Macbeth in a nightgown.)
Doctor:
Her eyes are open.
Gentlewoman: Ay, but their sense is shut.
Doctor:
(Making notes) What is it she does now?
Gentlewoman: Washing her hands. I have seen her continue thus for a quarter of an hour.
Lady Macbeth: Out, damned spot! One, two! ‘Tis time to do it. Fie, my lord, a soldier and afeard?
Yet who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him?
Doctor:
Do you mark that?
Lady Macbeth: The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be
clean? Here’s the smell of the blood still. I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come
out on’s grave.
Doctor:
Even so?
Lady Macbeth: There’s knocking at the gate; come, to bed. (Exit.)
Doctor:
Will she go to bed now?
Gentlewoman: Directly.
Doctor:
Go to; you have known what you should not;
Remove from her the means of all annoyance,
And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night.
Gentlewoman: Good night, good doctor.
(Exeunt.)
Scene 19.
(Enter Macbeth, Doctor and Lords.)
Macbeth:
Bring me no more reports! Till Birnam wood
Remove to Dunsinane I cannot taint with fear.
No man that’s born of woman shall e’er have
Power o’er Macbeth!
(Enter a Servant.)
Servant:
(Frightened) S – sir! There is ten thousand s – s – s –
Macbeth:
What, geese, villain?
Servant:
S – soldiers, s – sir.
Macbeth:
Thou lily-livered boy! What soldiers?
Servant:
The English force, so please you.
Macbeth:
(Pushing him away) Take thy face hence!
(Exit Servant.)
Macbeth:
(Calling) Seyton! I have lived long enough. That which should
Accompany old age - honour, love, troops of friends –
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I must not look to have, but curses, not loud but deep. Seyton!
(Enter Seyton, carrying armour.)
Macbeth:
Give me mine armour.
Seyton:
‘Tis not needed yet.
Macbeth:
I’ll put it on! How does your patient, doctor?
Doctor:
Not so sick, my lord, but she is troubled
With dark fancies that keep her from her rest.
Macbeth:
Throw physic to the dogs! Put mine armour on.
Hear’st thou of these English, Doctor?
Doctor:
Your royal preparation makes us hear.
Macbeth:
(To Seyton) Bring it after. I will not fear death and bane
Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane. Come!
(Exeunt.)
Scene 20.
(Drumming. Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff, Lennox, Ross and Soldiers.)
Siward:
What wood is this before us?
Lennox:
The wood of Birnam.
Malcolm:
Let every soldier hew him down a bough,
To bear before him and shadow our numbers.
Siward:
We hear the tyrant keeps in Dunsinane
And will endure our setting down before it.
Malcolm:
‘Tis his main hope.
Macduff:
A certain issue strokes must arbitrate:
Towards which, advance the war!
(Bugle call. Drumming. Exeunt.)
Scene 21.
(Enter Macbeth in armour.)
Macbeth:
The cry is still ‘They come!’ our castle’s strength
Will laugh a siege to scorn.
(Women wail offstage.)
Macbeth:
What is that noise?
(Enter Seyton.)
Seyton:
The queen, my lord, is dead.
Macbeth:
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot.
(Enter a Messenger in haste. He stands hesitating.)
Macbeth:
(Impatient) Thou comest to use thy tongue: thy story quickly.
Messenger:
Gracious my lord, I should report that which I saw,
But know not how to do it.
Macbeth:
Well, say, sir.
Messenger:
I looked toward Birnam, and, methought, - the wood began to move!
Macbeth:
(Striking him) Liar and slave!
Messenger:
(Pointing) Within this three mile you may see it coming!
Macbeth:
“Fear not, till Birnam wood do come to Dunsinane” –
And now a wood comes toward Dunsinane.
Ring the alarum bell! - Blow, wind! Come, wrack!
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At least we’ll die with harness on our back!
(Exeunt.)
Wiches’ Familiar 1: We return to this a sorry tale
I heard the sound of Lady Macbeth’s wail
She could not bear the guilt upon her soul
In many murders did she play a role.
Withes’ Familiar 2: All so her husband would remain the king.
And crowds of people would ‘God save him’ sing.
But now he is at war and fears
That his new reign, it disappears
Witches’ Familiar 1: The witches said he’d only lose
If the woods at Birnam should move !
This is impossible of course he knows
But his guilt does on his confidence impose.
Scene 22.
Hands t’ward the darkness feel the day draw late
Tock tock tock tock
Hands t’ward the future feel the rhythm of fate
Tock tock tock tock
Hands t’ward the future feel the rhythm of fate
Tock tock tock tock
Hands t’ward the future feel the rhythm of fate
(Drumming. Enter Malcolm, Siward, Macduff and Lennox.)
Malcolm:
(To the off-stage army) Near enough; your leafy screens throw down!
Siward:
Make all our trumpets speak: give them all breath,
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
(Exeunt, shouting.)
Scene 23.
(Trumpets and sounds of battle. Enter Macbeth with drawn sword.)
Macbeth:
Swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,
Brandished by man that’s of a woman born!
(Enter Macduff.)
Macduff:
Turn, hell-hound, turn!
Macbeth:
Of all men else I have avoided thee;
Get thee back.
Macduff:
My voice is in my sword,
Thou bloodier villain than terms can give thee out.
(They fight and pause.)
Macbeth:
Thou losest labour: I bear a charmed life,
Which must not yield to one of woman born.
Macduff:
Despair thy charm, and know that Macduff was
From his mother’s womb untimely ripped.
Macbeth:
Accursed be the tongue that tells me so!
I’ll not fight with thee.
Macduff:
Then yield thee, coward.
Macbeth:
Never! Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
Yet I will try the last; lay on, Macduff,
And damn’d be he that first cries ‘Hold, enough!’
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(Exeunt, fighting.)
(Cheers offstage. Enter Malcolm, Siward, Lennox, Ross, Thanes and Soldiers.)
Siward:
(To Malcolm) This way, my lord; - the castle’s rendered;
The day almost itself professes yours.
(Enter Macduff.)
Macduff:
Hail, king - so thou art, for on the castle walls
Stands the usurper’s cursed head.
Hail, King of Scotland!
All:
Hail, King of Scotland!
Malcolm:
In time we shall perform what more’s to do:
As calling home our exiled friends abroad,
And bringing forth the cruel ministers
Of yon dead butcher and his fiend-like queen.
Now thanks to all at once and to each one
Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone.
(All raise their swords and cheer three times.)
- Viva La Vida reprise chorus (Curtain)
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Song Words – these songs are subject to cutting out and changes!
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence
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Destiny
Never been a day so fair, never been a day so foul.
Never been a day so fair, never been a day so foul.
Matthew:
A shadow falls, the night is cold
A strange event has been foretold.
The prophecy may hold the key.
That could unlock our destiny
And the song
We sing
'God Save the King'
Never been a day so fair, never been a day so foul.
Never been a day so fair, never been a day so foul.
To hide my fear, let darkness fall
Don't let my thoughts be read by all.
My deep desire I can't deny
An endless voice that seems to cry
And the song
We sing
'God Save the King'
Never been a day so fair, never been a day so foul.
Never been a day so fair, never been a day so foul.
And the night is fright'ning
The sky above is filled with light'ning
But the road ahead is so enticing
It rules my world
Never been a day so fair, never been a day so foul.
And the song
We sing
'God Save the King'
When will I
When will I
When will I
When will I
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ever
ever
ever
by crowned?
be king?
be crowned?
by king?
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Assassins’ Rap
Assassin 1
We are the blokes you ordered connoisseurs of snick and snack.
We offer you a service... A mix of click and clack.
Assassin 2
If it's dirty work you're after we're the answer to your prayer,
But if anybody wants to know... We was never there.
All:
A one, two, three, four
Who says crime don't pay?
Too rai oo rai ay.
Assassin 3
A man can meet his maker in a thousand different ways.
If you want to sort him out, would only take a couple days.
Assassin 4
A significant donation... we think that's only fair
And if anybody wants to know...we was never there.
All:
A one, two, three, four
Who says crime don't pay?
Too rai oo rai ay.
Assassin 5
We like to do the business with a certain va va voom.
We have a reputation when it comes to keeping stumm.
Assassin 6
There's a method in our madness, a certain savouir faire
And if anybody wants to know...we was never there.
All:
A one, two, three, four
Who says crime don't pay?
Too rai oo rai ay.
swing it brothers!
Who says crime don't pay?
One more time
Too rai oo rai ay.
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Viva La Vida (by Coldplay)
Lady M:
He used to rule the world
Seas would rise when he gave the word
Now in the morning he sleeps alone
Sweep the streets he used to own
He used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in his enemy's eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing
"Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!"
One minute he held the key
Next the walls were closed eternally
And he discovered that his castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason he can't explain
Once you go there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when he ruled the world
Revolutionaries wait
For his head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king?
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing…
For some reason he can't explain
Once you go there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when he ruled the world
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing…
For some reason he can't explain
Once you go there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when he ruled the world
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Weird Sisters- Witches Brew
A vision of the future can be read in the stars
A powerful new potion is much better by far.
We're brewing up a potion that we'll never repeat,
A little bit of bitter and a swooshing of sweet.
Then all will come true in the Witches Brew...
You
And
You
And
stir it to
you take a
stir it to
you take a
the left side (A
walk to the dark
the left side (A
walk to the dark
little bit of this)
side. (A little bit of that.)
little bit of this)
side. (A little bit of that.)
(RAP)
Fillet of snake, boil and bake,
Toe of a frog and tongue of a dog.
Honey bee's sting, black crow's wing.
Boiling mud and lizard's blood.
Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
You
And
You
And
stir it to
you take a
stir it to
you take a
the left side (A
walk to the dark
the left side (A
walk to the dark
little bit of this)
side. (A little bit of that.)
little bit of this)
side. (A little bit of that.)
(RAP)
Fillet of snake, boil and bake,
Toe of a frog and tongue of a dog.
Honey bee's sting, black crow's wing.
Boiling mud and lizard's blood.
Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
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