DRAMA CLUB SCRIPT
Term: Summer 2014
Day: Wednesday
Age group: 14-16
Title: Macbeth
Act I Scene I - The Woods
(Drum beats.)
(Levels formation)
Witch 1: When shall we three meet again?
Witch 2: In thunder lighting or in rain
Witch 3: when the hurly- burley’s done, when the battle’s lost and won
All: (quietly) that’ll be ‘ere the set of sun
W1: Where the place?
W2: Upon the heath
W3: There to meet with
All: Macbeth x4
Jo: I come greymalkin
Ellie: Paddock calls
Martha: Anon
All: Fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air. (back to back)
Tosca: A drum, a drum Macbeth doth come
Mason: So foul and fair a day I have not seen
Sam: You fought well my friend, you should be happy.
Mason: What are these creatures?
Sam: They look like nothing that inhabits the earth.
(Witches lunge)
Mason: Are they women?
Sam: They can’t be women for they have beards!
Mason: Speak if you can, what are you?
Carol ann: All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Glamis
Hat: All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cordor
Martha: All hail Macbeth, hail to thee that shalt be king hereafter.
Sam: My friend why do you look so shocked? They say you’re going to be king. What do you say of
my future hags!
Hail x3
Carol Ann: Lesser than Macbeth
Tosca: Yet greater
Hannah: Not so happy
Hat: Yet happier
Ellie: That shall get kings
Martha: Though thou be none.
All: So all hail Macbeth and Banquo.
Jo: Good news Macbeth, I’ve heard from the king that you are to be thane of Cawdor
Mason: But the thane of Cawdor lives?
Jo: He is a traitor and is due to be hanged in the morning.
Mason: Thank you (bow). Where did they go?
Sam: They vanished like breath onto the wind.
Act I Scene II - Macbeth’s castle – Inverness
Hannah: Lady Macbeth a letter from your husband.
Jo: Magic creatures have hailed my husband thane of Cawdor, and then king that shalt be. Aside:
This is the greatest opportunity for us to obtain power and for our names to live on in history. (to
Macbeth) Glamis thou art and Cawdor thou shalt be.
Ellie: I’m so glad to see you my love, the king comes here tonight.
Jo: And when does he leave?
Ellie: Tomorrow morning?
Jo: No! Never shall he see that morrow?
Fan fair sound effect
Martha: This castle hath a pleasant seat, the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our
gentle senses.
Jo: King Duncan
Martha: Lady Macbeth, where is the thane of Cawdor.
Ellie: Your highness,
Martha: I heard you fought with the heart of 20 men.
Ellie: Thank you your majesty, come with me to dinner.
Act I Scene III - A Room in the Castle
(General conversation then mouths become covered and muffled)
T: If we are going to do it, then it needs to be done quickly. There are many consequences when
trying to assassinate a king. We could put poison in his chalice. Or hire a murderer to kill him with a
knife. In any instance I cannot be detected.
CA: How now what news husband. It is almost finished why have you left the party?
T: Has he asked for me?
CA: No he hasn’t
T: We will continue being loyal hosts. You must say nothing.
CA: Well let’s hope he’s drunk it will make the task easier. Are you scared my love?
BEAT
CA: You can’t be a coward now. Not at this time. Not when we are so close.
T: I will do my best to be the man you want me to be.
CA: I know what it is like to love a child. And I would, whilst feeding my babe, rip it from my breast
and dash its brains out on the floor, if you so desired.
T: And what if we fail.
BEAT
CA: Then we fail.
Act II Scene I - The Courtyard
H: How is the night my boy, are the stars out and the moon gleaming?
E: The moon is down; I have not yet heard the clock.
H: You are right when the moon goes down the clock will strike 12.Is it not time you were in bed?
E: Oh father. Must I? Must I go to bed? Must I leave these revels? Must I not enjoy the party like
everyone else?
H: He who has sleep has merciful power. How can you expect to wield a sword without the strength
to hold it? (M enters) Whose There?
M: A friend.
H: Ah what sir are you not at rest. The king has just gone to bed. He has been in an unusually good
mood this evening.
M: Yes, it must be the elation of the battle.
H: (Wave Ellie away) to bed my son. I dreamt last night of those weird sisters we saw in the woods.
M: I don’t think of them at all. They speak nonsense. You shouldn’t let them affect you my friend.
H: Your kindness is appreciated. Now if you’ll excuse me I’ll get my son to bed.
M: Good night my friend.
Act 2 Scene 1 - Courtyard
M: Is this a dagger which I see before me?
Hat: Is this a dagger I see before me?
M: The handle towards my hand, come let me clutch thee.
Hat: I have thee not and yet I see thee still.
M: Art thou a dagger of the mind, a false creation
Hat: (turn to M) Proceeding from the heat oppressed brain?
M: I see thee yet in form as palpable as this which now I draw.
Hat: Thou marshals me the way that I was going. And such an instrument I was to use.
M: Mine eyes are made the fools o’er the other senses, or else worth all the rest I see thee still.
Hat: And on the blade and dudgeon gouts of blood. Which were not so there before.
M/ Hat: There is no such thing.
S: It is the bloody business which informs thus to mine eyes.
Mn: Nature seems dead and wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep.
CA: Pale Heckates offerings and withered murder.
T: Alarmed by his sentinel, the wolf, who howls his watch thus with a stealthy pace.
H: With Tarquin’s ravishing strides towards his design moves like a ghost.
E: Thou sure and firm set earth
J: Hear not my steps which way they walk
M: while I threat he lives.
All: A bell x7
M: I go and it is done, the bell invites me
Hat: Hear it not Duncan for it is a knell, that summons thee to heaven, or to hell.
Act 2 Scene 2 – Lady Macbeth’s Room
S: I have done the deed, did you hear any noise?
H: I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
S: When?
H: Now.
S: As I descended?
H: Yes.
S: Then others must have heard! This is a sorry sight.
H: You must not talk like that the deed had to be done. Think no more of it otherwise it will drive you
mad.
S: I will forever see his face, and my voice crying sleep no more!
H: Why did you bring those daggers in your hands? Let me take them I will place them by the
sleeping guards.
S: I am afraid to think of what I’ve done.
H: Then don’t think. [Exeunt]
(Knocking)
S: Who knocks? Someone must know. What hands are here? They pluck out mine eyes, will all great
Neptune’s oceans wash the blood from these hands?
H: My hands are of your colour. Did you hear the knocking? Come let us wash and clear away our
guilt.
(Knocking)
H: More knocking.
S: Wake Duncan with thy knocking, I would thou could’st. [Exeunt]
Act 2 Scene 3
(Steps back and lay down, sleepy)
Jo: O horror, horror, horror!
Mason: What is it you say?
Jo: Approach your chamber and destroy your sight, the king is murdered. Murder and treason, ring
the bell.
Bell – wake up
Tosca: what’s the business?
Jo: Tis not for you to hear what I can speak, our royal master’s murdered.
Tosca: What in our house?
Ellie: The guards it seemed had done it, there hands and faces were covered in blood. No man’s life
is to be trusted with them.
Mason: I killed them.
Jo: Why did you kill the guards?
M: Who could resist killing the guards, those who the courage to kill our king.
Sam: Look let’s all meet in the hall we’ll discuss this further.
They leave (Malcom and Donaldbain)
Hat: D, did you see the look in Macbeth’s eyes we shouldn’t consort with them. I shall go to England.
Hannah: I will go to Ireland, that should keep us both safe, there’s daggers in men’s smiles.
Hat: Ok, now shift away.
Hannah: (Banquo Aside) Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all. As the weird women promised,
mmmm I suspect foul play, but hush no more!
Act two, Scene 3
Enter Macbeth:
Sam: Our fears in Banquo stick deep, to make them kings, the seed of Banquo, KINGS!
(Murders in) You’ll find them in the forest, make it quick…….kill them both.