Directing the Actor Playing Macbeth in Act 2 :: Drama

Imagine you are a director. Direct the actor melt downing Macbeth in Act 2 position 2.Shakespeares Macbeth has been a play out of the ordinary. It waswritten to upset, and show life at its most cynical and brutal. It isamong his darker pieces of work along with Othello, King Lear andHamlet. It was also written to please the current King of England atthe time, King James I. The play is based on real Scottish history, asKing Duncan was carry offed by one of his kinsmen who thus became King. Itis set within a Scotland in which frequent wars occur. Returning oneof theses wars are Macbeth and Banquo - generals of the Scottish army.Lady Macbeth has made a soliloquy, in which she has asked demons totake past her sexuality and have it replaced with evilness. She askedliterally to have her breast milk replaced with bile. Having hermilk replaced with bile would supposedly give her the ability to domasculine actions. She desires power and starts to mildly push around herlover, Macbeth, an d ridicule his masculinity. She talks about asmiling baby and then one with its brains smashed out shed preferthis to having a husband unwilling to kill in cold blood. Lady Macbeth challenges Macbeth to prove his masculinity, by aiding her in killingKing Duncan, who will soon be a guest at their house. The cabalis that they kill the King and smear the blood on his guards, whichwould make them the prime suspects. Macbeth is next in rank and islikely to become the next King of Scotland. amongst them, there is anenormous desire to gain power and become leaders of the country. Withthis desire and Lady Macbeths challenge combined, you have the playof Macbeth. Shakespeare has cleverly set the play in certain themes,such as ambition, good vs. evil, disorder and the supernatural. Inthis scene, Lady Macbeth will rendezvous with Macbeth in the courtyardas he returns from his challenge - the murder.Act 2 Scene 2 is an early climax of the Macbeth play. Anticipation hasbuilt whilst the conspira cy has been planned and the audience would bevery eager to guess what happens, as they have been posing questions intheir head which need answering, such as Will they get caught? orWill Macbeth become the King of Scotland? A murder eer attractsinterest, and a murder of high treason would multiply such interestand excitement. It is highly significant as the infamous murder iscommitted here (not chronologically - it is not shown in the play).