Macbeth Creative Project - Nzinga, Sharron

Posted by Nzinga Suluki-Bey in English 1 - Giknis - X on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 7:31 am

In English class we are doing a project on Macbeth. My partner Sharron and I have decided to do a playbill on Macbeth the play. We are choosing to make a Theatrical Playbill with a mask of symbolic representation of Macbeth. We are choosing to do this because we want to show the play an artist's point of view. We also want the play to stick out by what people see and read. We also liked to be the second people to create a playbill, we like to be different.Our playbill is centered around the play Macbeth; therefore we decide to have a theme for our playbill. For our playbill we have decided to have Shakespeare an anniversary of all his most famous plays. The ads will be of: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. We chose those plays because it includes death and love in its purest form. Most of Shakespeare's plays have a hate or love or disruption of some kind.In Macbeth it has lots of hate of oneself and disruption of nature, and in our playbill we wanted to reflect on that a lot.

As you know for every playbill, the cover is everything. We decided for our cover that we wanted to have a metaphor for what you see isn't, what you get. With that saying, we decided to also use a quote from the book. We chose Lady Macbeth and Macbeth to be the metaphor, because those characters changed the most. Lady Macbeth is a lady and ladies back then were supposed to be innocent, but she wasn't after they killed Macduff. We wanted her to look the most out of ordinary. One side has all her makeup and she looks perfect. Then the other side shows her true self, she is crying and broken. Macbeth was a tough person before he killed all his friends and people he was supposed to guard, so he has less going on on his face. One side has a mark that's gray and the other side looks like he is going threw war. We wanted our cover to reflect the metaphor of the whole play.

Since we have a theme for our playbill we decided on a theater in Minnesota that featured all of Shakespeare's plays. Its called the Guthrie Theater. The theater has an open concept, so the audience can see the play from all the different sides. Each actor we chose, as you can see is from United Kingdom. We wanted the play to symbolize Shakespeare's legacy, and since he is from the United Kingdom, we wanted all of the actors to be as well. All our actors also have been in big television shows that are about the United Kingdom's royal families.

A traditional playbill shows the stage during the show not on paper, but this in a traditional playbill. We chose five different scenes from all five acts. Each scene has different form of a stage set. It shows the audience in the front, but each scene/act shows you the different forms of how we visualize the scenes. We chose the scenes that portray both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth in a way of goodness and in times of war. The clothing we chose was from Scottish and English times. We wanted the clothes to reflect all characters, to make sure no one was left out.

In conclusion, we wanted to go deeper in the book itself. We wanted to dig in and find all the emotions and hidden thoughts and feelings that the author wanted us to get out of it. In the project itself we wanted to and made sure that we contribute that. Our process thinking was to look deeper than the words on the page. Deeper than what we got out of the class.

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Comments (19)

Darlenny Rodriguez

I find it cool how you not only decided to do the playbill itself, but go above and beyond and do the masks. They were awesome!

Darlenny Rodriguez

I find it cool how you not only decided to do the playbill itself, but go above and beyond and do the masks. They were awesome!

Leah Bradstreet

I thought that this project was a very unique and different way to express the same idea as all else doing this project. I hope you keep up this level of creativity in anything else.