Act 1 Scene 3 | Macbeth | 2018 | Royal Shakespeare Company

[@J_Stamps86]

I love that the witches are kids, it's so much more sinister and they are absolutely fantastic in the role.

[@matthewpayne411]

i'm glad someone else gets it!

[@kennethwayne6857]

Come and play with us.

[@lovelylexi2076]

The girls playing the witches are so cute! I'm finishing up high school and I'm still not that great when it comes to Shakespeare, so I applaud them for doing an amazing job at a young age.

[@lovelylexi2076]

@Elizabeth Kaleniuk Well then, I got to give you props. You certainly did better than I would have at age 9! As for looking weird, almost everyone who grew up doing theatre felt that way. I can't tell you how many times I was put in a ridiculous costume for the shows I did as a kid.

[@natushek2015]

Agreed I’m 20 btw

[@anno2734]

why are there kids in onesies and welly boots, wtf

[@benedictcihelka9101]

poggers champion haha like if you agree

[@jakepatrick5606]

its to use the innocence of kids and the horrors of witches to make you uncomfoble (lol ik i cant spell)

[@sarahannah7670]

it looks creepy tbh

[@kennethwayne6857]

@@sarahannah7670 Meant to.

[@deborahingle2301]

I'm seriously questioning the choice to make the witches little girls. Especially in the way this scene is staged, they aren't intimidating enough to impress Macbeth and Banquo, let alone the audience.

[@StephanieStjames488]

I agree. The girls were more like precocious stage-schoolers. Putting them in cute onesies and furry slippers did nothing to enhance the production!!

[@ignoreanycommentsoverayear6560]

I think they should have had girls not in onesies but in witches rags, maybe with blood and dirt smeared on them? It would help making them scarier

[@jonathanmelia]

It’s quite clear, if you look at other clips from this production, the director was influenced by the films of Kubrick. This is the production’s THE SHINING moment.

[@ignoreanycommentsoverayear6560]

Jonathan Melia it’s not scary at all tbh

[@andrewmorse6882]

Throws responsibility onto Macbeth for the murder. Kids are making it up as they go along- no authority, no responsibility. It's Macbeth's intent.

[@carti9938]

Anyone here from English

[@ProdByBsynx]

POV: ur English teacher brought u here from English

[@nickyluggah880]

Nahhh Drama

[@gracedaglish451]

I'm from drama lol

[@damascusfletcher8929]

I'm from both

[@benedictcihelka9101]

omg yhesssss like if you agree

[@key_liz]

Yes 💀

[@vinegardaddy2554]

I like the idea of making the witches kid like. Kids can be scary as hell like in The Shining, but something about this one was a bit off tbh. Maybe using young adult actors who look extremely young instead can execute this idea better.

[@66Chrisy]

Wonderful production! Really enjoyed it.

[@Lijxhhhh]

They cut out so much

[@timwhite794]

An interesting dramatic choice to make the witches children. There’s a long tradition of monstrous children and child-like spirits in the supernatural and horror that make it quite apt and original. They aren’t meant to be scary, rather to convey an otherworldly impression.Some rather literal and unimaginative criticisms in the comments.

[@sarahbeardsley]

this interpretation of the witches works so well. love Christopher Eccleston sm

[@ttsuk_1]

Watched for Macbeth, but stayed for Christopher Eccleston :)

[@invisinvle4747]

Oi Oi its me Anyone whos here for english :D

[@chinny9138]

yh

[@mad_j4825]

for drama :D

[@Grapes_grrrrrrr]

me to

[@islay8736]

I’m here for drama 😎

[@minniekim6357]

I am here for drama too

[@sarahbeardsley]

macbeth: i know i am thane of glames, but how of cawdor? witches: *shrug* idk lmao

[@damascusfletcher8929]

Love the little kids just shaking the babies

[@michaelnixon525]

So, Shakespeare spends the first fifteen minutes of the play, through the mouths of The Bloody Sergeant, Malcolm, Duncan, and Ross, telling us what a great man Macbeth is - a great general, soldier, intellect, poet, physically and emotionally extremely strong, admired for these qualities by all. And then, in this production, he encounters three little girls and he is terrified. So we see Shakespeare, the Sergeant, Malcolm, Duncan, and Ross had all got it wrong - he's not a great man - he's just a big wuss. Thank you Ms Findlay for revealing this remarkable insight to us. Ruins the play, of course, but hey ho, you can't have everything.

[@jonathanmelia]

Macbeth is not terrified of the Witches. He’s terrified by the INFORMATION they give him. If he is to “be king hereafter”, there’s only one option open to him that can make that happen: he is going to have to murder Duncan (and to kill one’s sovereign is one of the worst sins imaginable). As he subsequently says, “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.” The message terrifies him, not the messengers.

[@michaelnixon525]

I don't think he's terrified of what the sisters tell him. He is excited - or would be if the sisters had any credibility ( obviously not the fault of these children - but rather, the director). Macbeth has thought ( fantasised) about becoming king,both on his own and with his wife, a thousand times before his encounter with the sisters. And he knows he's going to hell for what he is going to do. And he's an extremely intelligent man ( not in this production, obviously) but he goes ahead and does it anyway. And that's your tragedy And that's your great,great play. ( not in this production, obviously) .

[@matthewpayne411]

They scared me more than all the humpbacked crones i've seen over the years🤷

[@dudderrz6995]

I did not know they had water fountains in Macbeth

[@jamesclarke9798]

ok

[@Eli-cb7tk]

I keep hearing AND ONE

[@joeywhale69420]

Hello guys

[@itscalledfun4226]

Bro all they did was bought those onesies from Toys R’ us and decided to film with whatever they got 💀

[@michaelnixon525]

The Goodbye Girl - anyone?

[@jonathanmelia]

Hello Danny....Come and play with us...for ever...and ever...and ever...

[@hajrafekih2750]

Dat shall be king heWafter

[@Kydos37]

Pretty weak attempt. Ecclestone is about a 6.5/10, though hard to tell with his limited lines in this scene. Everyone else was rubbish . And why is there a guy sitting beside a water-cooler for the whole scene?

[@frogsfoot]

I wonder how they rehearse this, considering the plays notorious curse

[@moonbunny24]

They just do. There's an AP video where Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack talk about the superstition and Eccleston explains that the entire thing is actually because theaters putting on Macbeth had typically fallen on hard times.

[@hajrafekih2750]

GOD! These witches are scary!

[@donnalancaster5714]

Im getting Hamilton vibes

[@moonbunny24]

Hey, what was this supposed to mean???

[@chinny9138]

this is scary

[@BenHershey-bf9vu]

Uuuum who wants a cupcake I just be watching while dropping the tilted why they so young what the sigma this the project for English who else

[@mattwhite9780]

banquo is a proper wasteman

[@mmartin4697]

Horrendous!

[@pvonberg]

This is ridiculous