Greg Hicks as Macbeth
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Sequencing scenes
Below you will find photographs from 6 different productions of Macbeth.

Try this:
Look at the photographs and try to match them with;

a description of events

the correct act and scene number

For a bonus point, name the actors and the year of the production.

Photographs

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Description of events
a. Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to murder the king

b. Macbeth duelling with Macduff

c. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth immediately after the murder of King
Duncan

d. The Porter imagines himself to be the keeper of Hell's gate

e. A wounded soldier describes Macbeth's bravery in battle

f. Macbeth returns to visit the witches alone

Act and Scene
i.  Act 1 scene 7

ii. Act 2 scene 2

iii. Act 2 scene 3

iv. Act 5 scene 10

v.  Act 1 scene 2

vi. Act 4 scene 1

Names of actors and year
1. Harriet Walter & Antony Sher, RSC 1999 (director, Gregory Doran)

2. Ian McKellen and Judi Dench, RSC 1976 (director, Trevor Nunn)

3. Adrian Schiller, RSC 1996 (director, Tim Albery)

4. Miles Anderson with Pip Hinton, Joanna Roth, Vivienne Rochester,
RSC 1988 (director, Adrian Noble)

5. Robert Harris and Julian Somers, Stratford-Upon-Avon 1946
(director, Michael McCowan)

6. Joseph Mydell as the Bloody Sergeant (with Nicholas Woodeson, Paul
Venables and Roger Watkins), RSC 1987 (director, Adrian Noble)

Try this:
Find a quotation from the play to use as a caption for each of the six pictures.

answers
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