Macbeth and the Show

I have, yet again, noticed that references are made to semi-exotic animals in Shakespeare's plays. I did some thinking about the type of knowledge that those who originally went to Shakespeare's plays would have had which led me to think about Aristotle. Aristotle, being the grandfather of biology, charted and described different types of animals that were brought to him by Alexander the Great (at least that is what my Philosophy professor said); because of Aristotle, then, I think that books would have been available, with pictures, that those of England could have learned from.

Tonight's show went very well. I felt bad about the ending of my play, but this is only because it was the least rehearsed part of the play. We never did this scene on stage in the theater until the final show, and for that I think it went really well. I think that I did a great job with my lines, but I am certainly glad that I decided to make cue cards at the last minute. The safety net made me much more relaxed when I hit the stage. I had a lot of fun performing and wish that we would have known more about changing of scenes and how to move things around backstage quickly to make the show run smoother and more quickly. Overall I really liked that we kept a lot of things true to the written play and used elements of the movie to "fluff" out what we were doing (i.e. Juliet wore wings and Romeo had a sword).