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We all read Macbeth in High School; we didn't know jack...

submitted by SFOGuy

1 decade 11 months ago

So, everyone read Macbeth in High School. Maybe a good teacher even required you to memorize a speech and you picked this one. But apparently, unless your teacher was a heck of a lot better than mine, we never really got a shot at understanding why these sections of Shakespeare's verse weren't just drearily cliched.

I thought this was a superbly virtuoso demonstration of the real work spent by an actor understanding what a playwright is up to.

And how the actor, at least a real one, figures things out.

I wish he'd do the same thing for some of Gandalf's speeches in Lord of the Rings---or even, some of the Star Trek speeches that Patrick Stewart does (did you know McKellen officiated at Stewart's wedding?)---because I suspect that any script he touches or reviews gets this level of commitment and focus.
I bet there'd be something to learn there.