Susan Vidler's Performance as Lady Macbeth
I will focus on Susan Vidler's performance as Lady Macbeth in Act one,
in order to explain how Penny Woolcock, the director, of BBC's
'Macbeth on the Estate' has adapted Shakespeare's play for a modern
audience.
In the video Lady Macbeth is presented as the wife of a thug who is
part of a gang, which controls a modern housing estate. This reflects
the lawless society in tenth century Scotland where women were
considered inferior and thanes plotted against the king. Lady Macbeth
appears wearing a short, tight black dress - "sexy clothes" to suggest
she persuades by using her sexual charms.
In Shakespeare's text Lady Macbeth is evil from the moment she first
appears reading a letter from Macbeth that tells her about the
witches' predictions. Thinking of Macbeth she decides, "You shalt be
what thou art promised".
"Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o' the milk of human
kindness to catch the nearest way"
She has decided straight away that they should take the "nearest way"
-murder. Her only worry is that he is not ruthless enough. She does
not even think about other ways the predictions could come true.
Shakespeare presented this speech as a soliloquy, to show that this
was what she really thought. The BBC also use soliloquy but to
emphasis her evil nature they also show her looking into a mirror as
she brushes her long, black hair, to remind us of the wicked queen in
Snow White.
After she receives the message that Duncan is coming Lady Macbeth
calls to evil spirits to "Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to
the toe top full of direst cruelty". The words suggest she is totally
ruthless but they also show she must think she has some good qualities
if she has to pray to the devil to get rid of them. On the screen we
see her going into a blue room that is full of toys, photographs of a
child but has an empty cot to suggest a much loved but missing child.
she has this picture and sound of the music box in her head. She has seen the way out,
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