No Fear Shakespeare: Macbeth
Amy Sampson for Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth, while inviting and frail on the exterior, is a calculating, ambitious woman at the beginning of the play, helping Macbeth with the murder of Duncan. However, throughout the course of the play, she is pushed further and further into the background as she becomes wary and tired of Macbeth's actions.
I don't mind what her voice is like, however, a good knowledge of the original script would be advised, as the No Fear Shakespeare script is not great at conveying the original emotions, so knowing what the dialogue is supposed to sound like would be a good idea.
If you are cast as Lady Macbeth, you may be asked to also play Hecate, depending on how many people also audition for the witches.
(Quiet and Angry) Coward! Give me the daggers. Dead and sleeping people can’t hurt you any more than pictures can. Only children are afraid of scary pictures.
(Pleading and Entranced) Come, you spirits that assist murderous thoughts, make me less like a woman and more like a man, and fill me from head to toe with deadly cruelty! Thicken my blood and clog up my veins so I won’t feel remorse, so that no human compassion can stop my evil plan or prevent me from accomplishing it!
(Crazed. A little angry and a little sad) Come out, damned spot! Out, I command you! One, two. OK, it’s time to do it now.—Hell is murky!—Nonsense, my lord, nonsense! You are a soldier, and yet you are afraid? Why should we be scared, when no one can lay the guilt upon us?—But who would have thought the old man would have had so much blood in him?
