macbeth 5

Lady Macbeth is on stage. It’s a West London pub theatre. The stage is tiny, claustrophobic, underground, with pillars, nooks and crannies. Entirely appropriate for a six-actor version of the play. Banquo has provided Lady Macbeth with a dress from his shop. The dress doesn’t fit as well as it should. Banquo owns a shop in Kent and has had walk on parts in Coppola movies, but he cannot act. Lady Macbeth is talking about giving suck and dashing out the brains of children. Footsteps from the pub upstairs rattle through the roof. Not completely out of place. Then the strains of the jukebox drift down the stairs. The audience probably don’t notice it, but the director does. The song is Just Like a Woman.