We went to the outdoor theatre yesterday to watch our third and last play there, Macbeth. Unlike the others, this play was one in the afternoon just after lunch, not dinner, so we were back at around dinnertime in itself. We drove there with Tilly’s friend Eleanor, and Katie came to see it as well, though not in our car. It was especially fun in the car on the way there, because whenever we played a song, we would all start dancing and singing in the back. When we got there, we heard loads of bells as the tent was opened up, and then we would go down the steps and register ourselves in with tickets. When we’d done that, we fitted ourselves into our seats (only changing seats a couple of times if there were some really tall people).
After a long pause, the three witches came on, singing ‘Double, double, toil and trouble, double, double, toil and trouble’ as they walked over to their starting positions. I thought they were amazingly done in their costumes; they all wore long, tatty robes and their straggly hair which dangled to their covered knees was tied in cones or leaves and twigs. They were really good with their witchy voices too, though when they did their first poem, ‘Round about the cauldron go’, they got a bit wrong, and we know that because we’ve learnt it off by heart too!
I thought that the characters were really enthusiastic and brilliant, especially Macduff and Lady Macbeth. I thought that Macduff was brilliant when he found out that his wife and children had been murdered, since he actually cried (an easy way to do this, however, is to stare at something for a long while until your eyes start to water). Lady Macbeth was, too, amazing when she was sleepwalking, and saying ‘Out, damned spot – out, I say!’ and screaming at the end. Malcolm was really good, too, at all the facial expressions. Out of all the plays I’ve seen – The Tempest, Macbeth and The Wind in the Willows – The Wind in the Willows was probably my favourite, and The Tempest drew with Macbeth.
