To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.
Macbeth: If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.
V: [Quoting Macbeth from Macbeth Act I Scene 7] I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.
The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it att...
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate husband; but, as often happens, no one paid the slightest attention to this boredom of hers.
Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?
'Macbeth' is an amazing story.
I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'
'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, ...
The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth
Everybody needs a career manager."- Lady Macbeth
Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.
I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done't!" Macbeth
