Macbeth 1
The original play Macbeth starts
in a scene where there are three witches who meet on a beach on a cold stormy
day where they bury an arm holding a dagger and other things. In my opinion this
makes the audience feel uneasy and scared as they might then think the witches
could kill them. The setting and weather also helps achieve this feel as people
are often scared of storms plus if it were to be a really sunny day it wouldn’t
build that tension that the stormy beach creates. I think this would also make
some people jumpy as they might think someone was a witch or that there could
be something scary buried beneath them. I think this will be a scary play as
the first scene often represents a scene.
In our group we created the atmosphere
of a windy heath by pretending to battle with the wind to walk forward and when
we were standing still we were actually pretending to be pushed around by the
wind. We created tension by having the witches hide so the audience didn’t know
they were the witches and then the witches suddenly moved when Macbeth got
close. We put the right sort of emotions in our voices using pitch projection
and articulation.
+ Clear understanding of tension and atmosphere
ReplyDeleteT When evaluating you need to refer to specific moments. Describe a moment in your performance when you changed into a tree, or spoke a line, rather than being general.
T Correct what you say about the beginning of the play. The PLAY just features the three witches on a heath. The beach and the hand were added in ONE of the film versions I showed you!