The assignment: Imagine Tim Burton has contacted you to create a set for his rendition of Macbeth or A Midsummer Night's Dream.
I really should have picked the latter, Macbeth is really stretching me. It doesn't help I had to speed read it. Guy and ambitious wife murder the King of Scotland and numerous other people because they're hungry for power. Ultimately, they are killed as well. There are dead bodies everywhere, and they don't sit still until Macbeth is off the throne.
Shakespeare had zombies. Really. Macbeth's friend, Banquo, is murdered by a hired hitman, and although his body was dumped in a ditch, it doesn't stay in the ditch. It moves around, and the sun takes the next few weeks off, all to prove how unnatural it is for Macbeth to kill the king and take the throne.
His wife is the scary one. Macbeth is a bit wishy-washy, but his wife keeps him on task, like a terrifying personal trainer, killing people who could take the throne from Macbeth.
And this whole mess started because 3 witches decided to spread a little gossip. This play is dark and depressing and I am so frustrated because everything I make looks...just wimpy.
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