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Qui Nguyen’s play Living Dead in Denmark was performed at American High School. The director Troy River presented a smooth performance that kept the audience engaged and laughing. In my opinion, the fight scenes, set, and cast did a wonderful job in bringing the scripts to life. I enjoyed the play and hope others come support the cast and watch this play.
The idea of Shakespearean heroines battling zombies is unique and instantly interested me. In the play the adapted Shakespearean characters logical Ophelia (Alyssa Ysabela Flores), clever Juliet (Zerlene Yet), and courageous Lady Macbeth (Maggie Wentworth) fight zombies who are led by the Ghost, Hamlet (Ethan Towner). The girls are aided by Horatio (Marcus Bautista) in effort of defeating the zombies
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They use their enemies, devious Titania (Natalie Dunn), Puck (Kaitlyn Sass), Rosencrantz (Dev Asnani) and Oberon (Mingyu Wu) in order to save earth.
The acting and directing balanced perfectly making the performance incredibly enjoyable. Alyssa did an excellent job in putting a spin to the character Ophelia to life. However, unlike the character Ophelia in Hamlet, she is not naive or innocent. Her courage and sensibility makes her brave in her adventures of battling the zombies. Moreover, Juliet falling in love with Lady Macbeth was a heartwarming addition to the play. Zeralene portrayal of Juliet seemed almost identical to Juliet from the well known play Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is rebellious, intelligent, a good fighter, and captured the audience's hearts. On the other hand, Lady Macbeth is assertive and easily picks fights. Maggie Wentworth personated Lady Macbeth with lots of ambition and strength. I was
Through choosing Kate Fleetwood as a younger actress compared to Patrick Stewart’s older Macbeth, as well as, the focus on her in direction, Goold’s Lady Macbeth loses her power as her husband gains it. “As Macbeth rose to power in Scotland, he also gained power in their relationship, until she was under his control by the end, watching as he executed the murders of Banquo and Lady Macduff without her.” (Mara W.) Fleetwood herself describes the Macbeths’ relationship as unbalanced scales. “There’s a moment in the play where she realizes that she should’ve been careful about what she wished for” (Shakespeare
Lady Macbeth only sees Macbeth the way she wants to see him. When he tells her there is a chance he will become King she right away thinks of his weaknesses.
William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth has a few main themes, one of which is role reversal. Macbeth is portrayed as a strong, fierce, and trustworthy soldier. At this stage in the story he had a conscience, and had a boundary between good and bad. However, Lady Macbeth is depicted as a devious and an extreme organizer, without a good sense of what is right and wrong. She would do anything in order to obtain supreme authority. Gradually they both change their views of power, treatment of one another, and their reactions to the murders and prophecies.
In his writing, Shakespeare unveils a hysterical, power-hungry, lustful Lady Macbeth, constant until the end; while in the film adaptation of the play, this image gradually peels away and disappears by act three to reveal a woman bound by the chains of her past who is acting out only in love. Barbara Leigh Hunt plays the role of Lady Macbeth and she does a fine job, reciting her monologues with desperate passion and sincerity. Upon first reading the play, Lady Macbeth appears to be nothing but evil, but as is displayed throughout the movie by Barbara, she is simply “a victim of a pathological mental dissociation…due to the emotional shocks of her past experiences” (Coriat). This streak of hysteria begins with an underlying passion to see a son inherit the throne after Macbeth, since “the witches hail Macbeth as a father to a line of Kings” (Coriat). Lady Macbeth is cursed with this chil...
Lady Macbeth is one of the most important factors of Macbeth’s inevitable is downfall. Throughout their time together in the play, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as a goading, emasculating figure to Macbeth pressuring him into things he wouldn’t normally act on. This is highlighted when Macbeth starts to change his mind about the murder, "hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been, so clear in his great office" In contrast, Lady Macbeth shows optimum strength in this scene. She undermines Macbeth and provoking and questioning his manhood. "And live a coward in thine own esteem" this makes the audience infer of Lady Macbeth's corrupt ambition and the extent to which she would go to, in order for her to satisfy her needs. “ look like th’innocent
My last and very relevant point is Lady Macbeth is just more emotionally strong and stable compared to Macbeth. Macbeth shows great emotion about all the tragic events he and Lady Macbeth have been putting themselves through. Lady Macbeth has kept herself together. She is constantly reassuring Macbeth.
To make these decisions we factored in their appearance, past roles, and characteristics of their personality when playing a role. To start with, Chris Hemsworth is strong, rugged, and built looking, much like we would imagine Macbeth to be because of his fighting strength. We know he is a good fighter because of the titles he has in the beginning of the book, so he must be built. Next, Chris Hemsworth has played roles of superheroes, which Macbeth is looked at to be a “Superhero” in the beginning, but superheroes can have a tragic downfall, because more times than not, they get a little cocky with their notable strength. When playing these roles Chris is looked to be a strong and usually plays male lead roles in movies, which Macbeth is. Our next choice is Angelina Jolie for Lady Macbeth. We chose her because she looks to be a sweet lady when she needs to be, but also can be cunning and deceiving when she needs to be, much like Lady Macbeth. Her strong facial features, such as her high cheekbones and full lips make her look like a strong female role. Her past roles include an animation feature of her in Beowulf, where she is the mother of Grendel. In this version she convinces and manipulates Beowulf with her words and her strong looks, just how Lady Macbeth does in the first killing with Macbeth, and we believe she would be able to do the same in the movie
Shakespeare wrote Macbeth in the 17th century. As an audience, you experience a lot of drama in the play. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are major characters in the play that different in many ways, both also have similar ways. Macbeth’s character starts out as a brave and ambitious man. His wife, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as a wicked person who feels no guilt. As the play progresses they both begin to change places dramatically.
...sign, lighting, casting, and costumes in the to be or not to be scene and Ophelia’s madness scene. His specific use of having the setting of the to be or not to be scene in the family mortuary made the atmosphere dark, and suspenseful which added intensity to Hamlet’s soliloquy. The lighting used in that scene also allowed the audience to see the blunt contrast between good and evil, making the scene more dramatic. Additionally, casting Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia made Ophelia’s insanity more believable because of her innocent features in her madness scene. Moreover, the costumes worn by the characters in the movie were more historically accurate for that time period and allowed the audience to see why each character behaved the way they did. All these different components of the film added to create a very effective interpretation of the famous play, Hamlet.
Hamlet, performed by the Yohangza Theatre Company of Korea and directed by Jung-ung Yang, is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that integrates the Korean Shamanist rituals with the original storyline and text. Performed in Korean and featuring an all Korean cast, the play made its debut in 2009 at the Myeongdong Theater in Seoul. The play was layer also performed at the at the 2010 Oz Asia Festival in Adelaide, the 2011 Shakespeare-Festival Neuss in Germany, and at the Peacock Theatre in London in 2014 (Yung). It is clear that many liberties are taken in this adaptation of Hamlet; therefore, evaluating the effectiveness of the overall production based on the accuracy of the play in relation to the original text will be unfruitful. Instead,
In Macbeth, William Shakespeare explores the effects of greed and ambition of those who seek too much power. One character who plays an essential role to this theme is Lady Macbeth. Through analyzing Lady Macbeth’s relationships, actions, and character development throughout the play, one can see the effect that her ambition to fulfill the witches’ prophecy had on her.
Death threads its way through the entirety of Hamlet, from the opening scene’s confrontation with a dead man’s ghost to the blood bath of the final scene, which occurs as a result of the disruption of the natural order of Denmark. Hamlet is a man with suicidal tendencies which goes against his Christian beliefs as he is focused on the past rather than the future, which causes him to fall into the trap of inaction on his path of revenge. Hamlet’s moral dilemma stems from the ghost’s appearance as “a spirit of health or a goblin damned”, making Hamlet decide whether it brings with...
Shakespeare makes Lady Macbeth the strongest character to make the play more interesting and to create massive tension. Her being evil makes the play even more interesting still but the way she asks the supernatural for help with making her unremorseful and cruel wouldn’t only create excitement and suspense, it would also disturb the audience.
In his tragedy Hamlet, William Shakespeare explores and analyzes the concept of mortality and the inevitability of death through the development of Hamlet’s understanding and ideology regarding the purpose for living. Through Hamlet’s obsessive fascination in understanding the purpose for living and whether death is the answer, Shakespeare analyzes and interprets the meaning of different elements of mortality and death: The pain death causes to others, the fading of evidence of existence through death, and the reason for living. While due to the inevitable and unsolvable mystery of the uncertainty of death, as no being will ever empirically experience death and be able to tell the tale, Shakespeare offers an answer to the reason for living through an analysis of Hamlet’s development in understanding death.
Shakespeare's portrayal of women in Hamlet is unlike his portrayal of them in Macbeth; nevertheless, they have similarities that are seen later in each play. Ophelia, who is Laertes's sister, Polonius's daughter, and Hamlet's lover, is seen as submissive and innocent while Macbeth's wife, Lady Macbeth, is displayed as ruthless and corrupting. Ophelia and Lady Macbeth are different in their characters because of Ophelia's weakness, her obedience to Laertes, Polonius, and Hamlet, Lady Macbeth's perseverance for power and her manipulative nature towards her husband. However, Ophelia and Lady Macbeth both have a need for the men in their lives in order to keep sane and die after these men leave them. Ophelia's weakness and easily influenced personality opposes Lady Macbeth's outward show of strength and independence.