Instead of deconstructing the Macbeth "curse", The Scottish Play doubles down on it, turning Shakespeare’s ghost into a literal poltergeist of authorial discontent. The myth becomes a narrative crutch, a way to externalize the film’s own anxiety about touching sacred material.
#FilmCriticism #Shakespeare #Adaptation #Macbeth #TheScottishPlay #Cinema #Theatre #MovieReview
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/fixing-shakespeare-the-folly-of-the-scottish-play-2020/
#thescottishplay
When the Spotlight Isn’t Yours: Going Viral by Accident (and How It Feels) https://sharonecathcart.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/when-the-spotlight-isnt-yours-going-viral-by-accident-and-how-it-feels/ #livetheatre #samheughan #theatreetiquette #thescottishplay #thersc
This show was an absolute tour de force, and #SamHeughan deserves every accolade he receives for it. #livetheatre #thescottishplay
I call this one “song of experience”.
you claim that i'm better than you, when in reality
i’m nothing but a practiced poor player
who knows how to call fire and gold from nothing but words
i stand before you and strut and fret my hour upon the stage
in much the same way i did since i was a child -
and when i became a teenager i found the voice of a haunted pipe organ
that only increased in volume and resonance with time and skill
and when i was 24 i unsexed myself and learned to roar
got some damned spots on my hands
(i roar about them, too)
i learned the difference between hard and soft, between open palms
and hidden knives
and built a cathedral for my pipe organ voice
burnt out like a caravan or a candle a time or nineteen
so don’t ever think you’re better than me
learn to screw your courage to the sticking place
dust off the keys, call the fire
and sing
07/28/2025
-Allēna
#allusions #discipline #lgbtqia #nonbinary #passion #poetry #practice #queer #queerpoet #ritual #shakespeare #thescottishplay #transgender #transmasc #transmascpoet #transmasculine
The Bog Witch isn't in a good movie, but she's in a much better movie. I hope she played one of the three witches in Macbeth sometime.
#Monsterdon #Bog #TeamBogWitch #TheScottishPlay
Here at #ANoiseWithin for #Macbeth . #WilliamShakespeare #ScottishPlay #TheScottishPlay #BardsPlay #TheBardsPlay
I think they thought they were doing a proper #dramatic performance, not #satire or #farce. It was in one of the tiniest theatres I've ever seen; there were only 3 rows of about 8 seats each. The front row was only a meter from the stage, just enough room for people to people to walk in.
The #stage was tiny, a meter deep with nothing but a curtain as their backdrop and just a couple of props, like the chair. The performers were at the edge of the stage, within arm's reach of the audience. We were in the first row, but thankfully we were at one end of the row, so there was about 3 meters between me and Lady MacBeth. I was barely able to contain my laughter; if I had been in the center, with Lady MacBeth looking directly into my eyes while MacBeth was engaging in his business and she was delivering her monologue, I never could have kept it together.
It was one of the strangest things I've ever seen. I suppose that's why it was part of a Fringe festival.
I don't remember the name of the company that performed it, or if they called their performance something other than #MacBeth. I don't remember what bits they cut and what they performed. But Lady MacBeth giving it her all, with her #rump raised to her husband and he keeping time with it, will remain burned in my #memory until the end of my days.
If anyone else out there saw this #performance, please speak up. Sometimes I wonder if it was all just a fever #dream.
3/3
Zounds! And forsooth! Not even the Three Weird Sisters can spoil the weather for @ScenicCityShakespeare's final weekend production of #TheScottishPlay at Greenway Farms.
Tix/details available:
https://www.sceniccityshakespeare.org/
@eosinopteryx What happened was the system was serving up Shakespeare mentioning #TheScottishPlay. When it was served up it led to a disaster.
#ThatScottishPlayAboutThatScottishGuy
#Shakespeare
Watching Macbeth again recently made it clear that Shakespeare's writing was even more brilliant than I understood when we discussed it at University. In his letter to Lady Macbeth, when he explains how compelling the witches' prophecy was, he's talking himself into believing that it should come to pass. His letter is a way of asking her to believe it, too. And she does. As she reads it, her belief in her husband's worthiness to be king is being validated both by his desire and by prophecy. Both of them believe he deserves the crown. Neither of them wants to ask where this prophecy comes from. That's what makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy, and tragedy unfolds. #Shakespeare #Macbeth #TheScottishPlay
If I was superstitious I might be concerned about performing The Scottish Play on Friday the 13th.
#Macbeth #Superstitious #TheScottishPlay #FridayThe13th
Um…Banquo. Obviously
#Shakespeare #TheScottishPlay #Macbeth #ShakespearesGlobe
[ID: a tweet from Shakespeare’s Globe reading “Which of Shakespeare's characters are you inviting over for Christmas dinner?*
“*Choose wisely. Some could bring merriment. Others all the drama. And one could quite possibly end up serving a pie filling you were not expecting.”]
Macbeth is the story of a young devoted patriot war-hero and his wife being radicalized by Intelligence agents and programmed to kill to effect a 'friendly' regime change in a foreign nation, likely via psychotropic breathing, primed hallucinations, hypnotic suggestion, driving their patsies to madness and suicide, and the beneficiary/collaborator Banquo is his only corroberator? Hmmm...
#cinema #film #thescottishplay
MACBETH - Sean Connery - Zoe Caldwell (1961)
https://youtu.be/LBsJcZ9kB0M
Went looking for the official version of the Shakespearian Tragedy Deaths infographic and found...this
#Shakespeare #Theatre #TheScottishPlay
https://shop.nationaltheatre.org.uk/collections/frontpage/products/lady-macbeths-hand-sanitiser
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