that's what i think about lady macbeth.eopatra... ..is deeply in love as well, and driven by a great sense of sexual passion with antony. but she... i can remember peter saying to us, he said, "you get this great build—up about the two of them "at the very beginning of the play," which you do, i mean, they talk about... "and then in come two (bleep)," he said... ..said to us, "who behave very, very badly." and we used to roll all over the stage and be all over each other and behave extremely badly. because she's a comic and playful character in a way. there are so many different facets to her, the infinite variety. yes. infinite variety. well, more difficult to play. yes. difficult, that's what i'm trying to get at. difficult, certainly. and also because she's wilful, she's difficult, she's a real pain at times, isn't she? yeah. how much sympathy do you have to have for her? oh, you ask some very hard questions! i've suddenly remembered that you do. now, do you...? no, you just have to understand it and be able to make the

that's what i think about lady macbeth.bout... "and then in come two (bleep)," he said... ..said to us, "who behave very, very badly." and we used to roll all over the stage and be all over each other and behave extremely badly. because she's a comic and playful character in a way. there are so many different facets to her, the infinite variety. yes. infinite variety. well, more difficult to play. yes. difficult, that's what i'm trying to get at. difficult, certainly. and also because she's wilful, she's difficult, she's a real pain at times, isn't she? yeah. how much sympathy do you have to have for her? oh, you ask some very hard questions! i've suddenly remembered that you do. now, do you...? no, you just have to understand it and be able to make the audience understand. it's not... it's not a question of me having sympathy with it. it's a question of me showing the audience that that is the person. where is the fellow? half afeard to come. go to, go to. come hither, sir. good majesty, herod ofjewry dare not look upon yo

lady disdain! chuckling are you yet living? how are you doing macbeth? are you allowed to say?laying it, is it's small, so it's intimate and we're trying to find ways of making it as intimate as possible. one of the difficult things about macbeth is shakespeare kind of created a cliche. he's got the witches, which, of course, in the time he wrote — as we understand it, he probably wrote it to order because king james liked a witch and he was new on the throne, so he thought, "i'll write a play about "witches for him. "that'll cheer him up. "that'll get him on my side." and he, you know — "hubble, bubble, toil and trouble," it's all — you know, that comes from macbeth, the idea of witches dancing around a cauldron. shakespeare invented that. all: the weird sisters, hand in hand... - what's difficult about that now is he invented it so successfully, it's almost a cliche. this is where the cliche began. but that doesn't necessarily help a modern audience to see beyond it, so we're — you're trying to find ways of, what would scare a modern audience? what would unsettle you now in a