macbeth original production

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Set

  • Little to no set

  • Balcony above - for castle wall scenes

  • Central curtain - to reveal Duncan’s body

  • Two entrances and exits

  • Trap door - witches came up from

  • Thrust configuration

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Costume

  • Jacobean costumes

  • Often expensive, second hand from other actors - showing class

  • Bold colours, silks, velvets and embroidery

  • Items which showed your roll - crown, armour and robes

  • Women charectars wore wigs, dresses and makeup

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Sound

  • Live music - overhead gallery

  • Lutes, shawms, drums and trumpet

  • Drums and trumpets showed military action

  • Thunder created with rolling canon ball, drums and metal sheet

  • Loud, supernatural sounds for witches - small fireworks and explosions

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Lighting

  • Almost solely daylight

  • Candles and torches suggested nighttime

  • The scenes are set with dialogue and imagery

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When and where was Macbeth first performed

1611 at the globe theatre