2. Act 1 Scene 1
Script 1606 2010 Patrick Stewart Film
Set in “an open place” Set in a field hospital with the
Effects – thunder & lightning to battle taking place outside.
suggest the supernatural Scene 2 “What bloody man etc.”
is spoken first. Tells audience
Some lines in rhyming couplets about the battle & Macbeth’s
Witches agree to meet after a bravery.
battle & then meet Macbeth Witches dressed as nurses with
Paddock & Greymalkin – surgical masks.
familiars. Tells audience they are Effects – bombs falling & heart
witches. monitor. Lights flashing.
“Fair is foul” – theme of things Witches don’t mention familiars
but rip out captain’s heart
being not what they first appear establishing them as evil.
3. Act 1 Scene 3
Script 1606 2010 Patrick Stewart Film
Setting – heath Macbeth & Banquo appear
Witches enter to thunder first entering creepy tunnel.
They speak of doing things Setting – underground hospital
which establish them as evil corridor, poorly lit, torchlight,
and ruthless e.g. “Killing swine opening onto large empty
etc.” room.
Some speech in rhyming
couplets Witches’ lines about sailor’s
wife & killing swine cut.
“Thrice”- seen as magic
number Probably to make it fit with the
more modern setting.
4. Act 1 Scene 3
Script 1606 2010 Patrick Stewart Film
“So foul & fair a day I have not • Witches spread out in line
seen”- Macbeth echoes their waiting, captains coat on
earlier words. stand behind them attached
Banquo comments on their to blood bag.(blood a
appearance “What are these theme of play)
so withered & so wild in their
attire etc.” • Witches remove surgical
They make their prophecies to masks when they speak.
Macbeth & Banquo before One carries surgical saw.
vanishing – probably through a
trap door
5. Act 4 Scene 1
Script 1606 2010 Patrick Stewart Film
Setting – The Pit of Acheron Setting - hospital, three bodies
Thunder marks witches’ entry on trollies covered in plastic
Use of “thrice” sheeting & surrounded by
Spell in rhyming couplets with blood spattered sheeting.
fixed rhythm, chorus Witches’ voices distorted,
Hecate & 3 other witches sing dancing in trance-like state .
a song ( fits in with James 1’s Bleep of heart monitor.
belief that witchcraft was 3 apparitions, bodies o trolleys
widespread & trying to destroy
the divine order.) twitch as if receiving electric
shock & speak through witches
6. Act 4 Scene 1
Script 1606 2010 Patrick Stewart film
Refer to Macbeth as “wicked” Fourth apparition – multiple
Witches show Macbeth 3 Fleances wearing a crown.
Apparitions which give him “ damned all those that trust
advise & a fourth which shows them” line left out, why?
Banquo’s heirs as kings
(flattering king James who had
an ancestor called Banquo)
Lines 138/9 – Macbeth
ironically curses the witches &
those who trust them (himself)
