Company Report

 What happens in your scene? Outline the basic events.

a. Three Witches surround a boiling cauldron chanting spells and throwing in parts of animals.

b. Macbeth enters seeking answers to the prophecies he received.

c. The Witches give Macbeth a potion and three apparitions and eight kings appear one after the other.

i) Armed Head

ii) Bloody Child

iii) Crowned Child holding a tree

vi) A procession of Eight Kings and Banquo

d. The Witches vanish and Lennox enters.

e. Macbeth plans to attack Macduff’s castle and family

2. What do you think are the key purposes of your scene?

a. To introduce the three apparitions and the eight kings with Banquo.

b. To give Macbeth confidence because he knows he wont be killed until Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill, or by a man not born by a woman.

c. To tell Macbeth to watch out for Macduff

3. How does this scene fit into Shakespeare’s overall purpose in the play?

This scene fits into Shakespeare’s overall purpose in the play because Macbeth finds out that he must be wary of Macduff and that no man of woman birth shall kill him. Also, he receives a prophecy that he will not die until Great Birnam wood moves to Dunsinane hill. This gives Macbeth the confidence and arrogance to continue on his mad tyrannical attitude, which will eventually lead to his death.

4. Defend your company’s choice of production style.

We decided to produce our scene, Act VI Scene I, in a typical medieval style with a modern twist. With limited supplies for costumes, we

decided to find a costume for the witches that all three characters would have at home. Thus, we chose bed sheets to act as our robes. We

had to witches act sinister with high shrill voices because it went with the natural description of a witch. For Macbeth, we had him

wear a black fur robe because it helped to show his lofty status and showed wealth, which is what is usually used to

describe a king. We put a modern twist on the first apparition because since we did not have a armored head, we had Alex wear a

lacrosse helmet, which everyone in the school could piece together as an “armored head.” Also we described the second apparition as a

baby popping out of a zipped jacket because we thought the zipper would act as a depiction of a cesarean section. We had Alex

depict the third apparition with just a stick because we did not have any baby clothes to make him look like a young boy but we were able to

find sticks. For the procession of eight kings, we wanted to make it appear as though only Macbeth could see the eight kings, but we also

included a mirror as a prop to help the audience know that this was the vision of the eight kings with the last king holding a mirror. Finally,

we had Lennox(Sam) wear a mask-like prop which helped to show that he was a messenger and legion of Macbeth. We also had Lennox talk

to Macbeth just like a vassal would to his feudal lord.