When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'Macbeth' is an amazing story.
I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.
I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'
Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.
I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.
My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.
When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.
All the Shakespeare parts are for young women, mostly.