Context:
What do we expect of a woman? Should it be different for a man? Lady Macbeth challenges Macbeth's manhood, daring him to commit the murder; yet she uses a strange excuse for not doing it herself - that Duncan looks like her father. To examine our traditional expectations and explore the roles of masculine and feminine in rehearsal, the actors tried looking for the feminine in Macbeth and the masculine in Lady Macbeth. They first tried paper exercises, jotting down the predictable images, the stereotypes, for each gender. They then translated these into physical shapes in the form of tableaux. |
