Sunday 30 October 2011
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Saturday 15 October 2011
Macbeth the play
In the evening of 14 October 2011, my family and I watched Macbeth the play performed by TNT theatre Britain at the Hong Kong City Hall. After a sumptuous meal at the Maxim’s Cafe on the second floor, we moved over to the theatre beside it. The theatre is not really big but just big enough for roughly 400 seats.
The play started pretty soon. It is an exciting and disheartening story about Macbeth turning into the bad guy. I read the play and the performance was as good as what is written in the original play. The best part of it was the scenes when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plotted and carried out the murders. Those were quite scary scenes.
What surprised me most was not found in the play but at the intermission when I ran into three of my teachers. It was an enjoyable night.
Sunday 2 October 2011
The Shakespeare Collection: Macbeth
Retold by Anthony Masters; Illustrated by Stephen Player
Background of the Story Plot
Event 1: After fighting a war, the two Scottish generals, Macbeth and Banquo met three witches who soothsaid that Macbeth would be King of Scotland in future.
Event 2: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth murdered the King of Scotland. Macbeth was made the king.
Event 3: Macbeth wanted to secure his throne, so he killed Banquo and Macduff’s wife.
Event 4: Macdull and Malcolm sought revenge and killed Macbeth in a war. Malcolm became King of Scotland.
Characters
Hero: Macduff
Heroine: No
Villian: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth
Other Characters: the three witches, Duncan, Donalbain, Malcolm, Banquo, Ross
Setting
When: The story took place a long time ago when Scotland was ruled by a king.
Where: Scotland
Theme
The story is about ambition. Ambition is natural. It can be good or bad. If one is too ambitious, it may be bad. If being too ambitious is added with a bad method, it will be very disastrous.
. But if one is too ambitious, or one uses wrong ways to achieve the ambition, it can be very bad.
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