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Play On Bill: Macbeth

 It's Mr Macbeth to You!

 

 

Play On Bill: Romeo and Juliet

 In Love with Juliet

 

 

 

Play On Bill: a Midsummer Night's Dream

 Not that Dream Again

 

 

 

by Richard Baines

 

Play on Bill is a series of plays written for classroom and school performance, based on the plays of William Shakespeare  Each play is essentially about a school performance of the Shakespeare play, with interactions between the actors in the school play, the backstage crew, the staff, and the roles in  Shakespeare’s play.

 Each play is an enjoyable drama in its own right, but has the added value of introducing students to some of the characters and better known scenes from Shakespeare’s plays.

 All plays have a large cast and effectively involve the whole class

It’s Mr Macbeth To You! begins in the classroom and ends in the examination hall, a journey we all dread, know or remember! Shakespeare’s Macbeth is on the syllabus, and the students are finding it a challenge! In the second Act It’s Mr Macbeth to You! takes off in another direction, exploring some of Macbeth’s themes in modern terms, complete with dramatic scenes, comic moments and musical interruptions

In Love With Juliet  begins with a school rehearsal of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Fights break out, interruptions multiply, actors don’t turn up and the tech crew are unreliable! Despite the chaos Shakespeare’s play begins to take shape. The second Act is set in the girl’s dressing room during a performance of the play. As they interact with Shakespeare’s text, the girls discuss their own love lives, and it is only in the final moments of In Love With Juliet that we come to understand the play’s title.

In Not that Dream Again! Shakespeare is on the road. The players are just completing a leg of the Comeback Tour, which, says William, will be his ‘very last public appearance.’ The tour includes some of his best-known numbers, Much Ado, The Shrew, that sort of thing. Not That Dream Again! is A Midsummer Night’s Dream as pantomime, just the way Shakespeare intended it! The first folio text has been brought up to date with the addition of a couple of songs, dances and a few extra scenes courtesy of the Bard’s own sheer comic genius. This, you might say, is the Director’s Cut.

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