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. . . Disdaining Forturne, with his brandish'd steel, Which smok'd with bloody execution . . .
Seyton, "the Bloody Sergeant" (Zane Palmer) tells of the deeds of Macbeth to King Duncan (Robert Projansky).
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Here I have a pilot's thumb, Wrack'd, as homeward he did come.
The three "Weird Sisters" try to out do each other with villainy (right to left: Eleanor Cohn-Echnor, Kelsey Wingate and Nicole Turley).
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A drum ! a drum! Macbeth doth come!
The weird sisters prepare their trap.
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More is thy due than more than all can pay.
King Duncan (Robert Projansky, center) greets Macbeth (Brian Rooney) while Malcolm (Rae Kraemer, far right) bides her time.
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Thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it
Lady Macbeth (Christy Hernquist) considers exactly what kind of man her husband is.
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. . And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty!
Lady Macbeth (Christy Hernquist) invokes the aid of "spirits that tend on mortal thoughts."
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This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses.
From left to right: a "groomsman" (Maire Creegan), Angus Ross (Sokrates Frantzis), Donalbain (Lindsay Matteson), Malcolm (Rae Kraemer), another groomsman (David Loftus), Banquo (David Millstone) and King Duncan (Robert Projansky) await entry into Macbeth's castle at Inverness.
Photo by Michael Cook, used with permission.
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The love that follows us sometimes is our trouble, Which still we thank as love.
King Duncan and entourage recieve Lady Macbeth's (Christy Hernquist, far right) heartfelt greeting to her husband's seat, Inverness Castle.
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Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely?
Lady Macbeth (Christy Hernquist) questions her husband's determination (Brian Rooney, far right).
Photo by Michael Cook, used with permission
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I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me . . .
Lady Macbeth (Christy Hernquist) shows her resolve to follow through with what they started
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Bring forth men-children only! For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males.
Macbeth (Brian Rooney) is ever impressed with his wife's steel (Christy Hernquist).
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If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis, It shall make honour for you.
Macbeth (Brian Rooney, center-right) sounds Banquo's (David Millstone, center-left) ambiton. Fleance (Nicole Turley, left) and Lady Macbeth's servant (Eleanor Cohn-Eichner, right) wait patiently.
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Is this a dagger, which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?
Macbeth (Brian Rooney) starts to question his sanity during the interminable watch between deciding to murder Duncan and the murder itself.
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You do unbend your noble strenght, to think So brainsickly of things.
A shaken Lady Macbeth (Christy Hernquist) guides the "delusional" Macbeth (Brian Rooney) away from the murder scene.
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My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white.
Lady Macbeth (Christy Hernquist) returns after planting the daggers proud of the blood on her hands.
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[drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
The Porter (Robert Projansky) escorts the impatiant Macduff (David Loftus, center) and Lenny Menteith (Atticus Mowry) into the castle.
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Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality
Macduff (David Loftus, center) confirms the death of King Duncan.
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What is amiss?
You are, and do not know't
Macbeth (Brian Rooney) plants the seed of suspicion naming Donalbain (Lindsay Matteson) and Malcolm (Rae Kraemer, far right) as suspects in Duncan's murder.
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-How goes the world, Sir, now?
-Why, see you not?
Angus Ross (Sokrates Frantzis) and Macduff (David Loftus) wash their hands of the murder investigation's findings, ignoring the Old Man (Robert Projansky) who attends them.
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Hie you to horse: adieu, Till you return at night . . . Goes Fleance with you?
Macbeth (Brian Rooney, right) makes sure that Banquo (David Millstone) and son are on schedule for their ride around the park.
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Know, Banquo was your enemy.
Macbeth (Brian Rooney, left) suborns desperate men to solve the problem of Banquo in this cut scene.
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Men who are reckless what they do, to spite the world . . .and so weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That they would set their life on't
Kelsey Wingate (left) and Zane Palmer wait their cue to enter as the 2nd and 1st murderers.
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The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day; Now spurs the lated traveller apace, To gain the timely inn.
The 1st Murdere (Zane Palmer) takes lookout while the 3rd murderer (Eleanor Cohn-Eichner, center) questions him. The 2nd murderer (Kelsey Wingate) readys her chosen weapon, a baseball bat.
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-His Horses go about.
-Almost a mile; but he does usually
The murderers get set . .
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Let it come down!
. . . and Down goes Banquo!
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O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Fleance (Nicole Turley, right) stares in horror as his father is beaten to death.
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The murderers finish the job
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There's but one down: the son is fled
Murderer Three (Eleanor Cohn-Eichnor, left) is quick to shift blame.
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Thou art the best o'the'cut-throats; Yet he's good that did the like for Fleance . . .
Macbeth (Brian Rooney, left) confirms the jobs completion (or, rather, lack of it).
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Be large in mirth; anon, we'll drink a measure
Lady Macbeth (Christy Hernquist) waits Lenny Menteith's (Atticus Mowry, right) ante, while Angus Ross (Sokrates Frantzis, left) considers his hole cards at the Macbeth's "solemn supper".
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Sit, worthy friends. My Lord is often thus . . .
Lady Macbeth (Christy Hernquist, center) reseats her guests while Macbeth (Brian Rooney, right) notes the dead Banquo (David Millstone) has taken his seat.
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Then let me the canikin clink, clink!
Counsellor Ross Angus (Sokrates Frantzis, left) and Thane Lenny Menteith (Atticus Mowry, right) sing a song from another tragedy while Gory-locked Banquo (David Millstone, center) keeps his attention on Macbeth.
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Why do you make such faces?
Lady Macbeth (Christy Hernquist, right) shames her husband Macbeth (Brian Rooney, far right) while he defies the spirit of Banquo (David Millstone, standing, left).
Photo by Michael Cook, used with permission
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Pr'ythee, see there! Behold! look! lo! how say you?
Macbeth (Brian Rooney, far right) challenges his wife's perceptions.
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Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!
Macbeth (Brian Rooney, right) commands the ghost of Banquo (David Millstone, left) to behave like the dead to the amazement of all
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Think of this, good Peers, But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other; Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.
Lady Macbeth (Chirsty Hernquist, center) smooths over the whole affair with a few well-chose words, while Ross Angus (Sokrates Frantzis, seated left) and Lenny Menteith (Atticus Mowry, seated right) protect what's important.
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Approach though like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or th'Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that . . .
Macbeth (Brian Rooney, left) makes his own approach on the dead Banquo (David Millstone, right).
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Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mock'ry, hence!
Macbeth (Brian Rooney, center) literally turns the tables on his undead taunter Banquo (David Millstone, far right).
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Men must not walk too late
Lennox Monteith (Atticus Mowry, right) recounts his lesson from Banquo's death while Angus Ross (Sokrates Frantzis, left) considers on who's side Lenny might really be.
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Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw.
The weird sisters cavort on a local hillside (left to right: Kelsey Wingate, Nicole Turley & Eleanor Cohn-Eichner)
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Double, double toil and trouble: Fire, burn; and, cauldron, bubble
The weird sisters cook up more trouble for Macbeth (left to right: Kelsey Wingate, Eleanor Cohn-Eichner and Nicole Turley).
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Macbeth! Beware Macduff; Beware the Thane of Fife
Witch 2 (Nicole Turley, far right) is the first to channel an apparition and confirm Macbeth's (Brian Rooney, kneeling) suspicions.
Photo by Michael Cook, used with permission
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Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like shadows, so depart.
Witch 1 (Kelsey Wingate) gives Macbeth (Brian Rooney) what he asks for, and more. Witch 2 (Nicole Turley, far left) and Witch 3 (Eleanor Cohn-Eichner, in back) watch in expectant glee.
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My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain Than terms can give the out!
Macbeth (Brian Rooney, left) and Macduff (David Loftus, right) practice their climatic sword fight before the show.
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