Macbeth witches scene

Question 1

Makeup

Answer 1

-White faces
- Prosthetic warts and dramatised hooked noses
-White wild hair
- Dark eyeshadow around eye
-wisps of hair on chin and warts
- Celtic symbols - tree of live, trinity knot, motherhood knot

Question 2

Costume

Answer 2

• Black robes with hoods
• silver chains on arms
• holding wooden staffs

Question 3

Movement

Answer 3

Ancient and animalistic
Expression-
Gait- limping
Gesture- pointing crinkled hand
Stillness- “thunder” pause between and hold eye contact with audience
Fluency- frantically twitching head, snakelike
Facial expression- Wide eyes, mouth curved upwards
Proxemics- close to other witches
Posture- bent
Movement-

Question 4

Voice

Answer 4

• “Where shall we three meet again”
  Fluctuating pitch, high inclination, dramatic pause - foreshadows future meeting.
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Question 5

Traverse

Answer 5

-Set in a cave
-grey
-dark oak bench on furthest, covered in fake lit candles at diff heights
-dark oak door with silver handles opposite end
- swords in ground up the row of audience

Question 6

In the round

Answer 6

-Circular grey building
-Raise platform
-vom that raised to platform
-trap doors
-cualdron

Question 7

End on or proscenuim arch or thrust

Answer 7

• Two stain glass shattered windows
• Raised platform with stone stairs
• Iron bars
• Large dark oak door

Question 8

2 scenes

Answer 8

act 1, scene 1, witches discuss meeting
act 1 scene 7, Macbeth’s soliloquy on why to not kill duncan, Lady Macbeth emmasculates and persuades him