Macbeth (SCRIPT)

INTRO: DARK, FOGGY

Narrator: (witches/ witches have distinct laugh)
(ALL)Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. (FIRST
WITCH) What story are we going to tell again?
(SECOND WITCH) How could you forget, MACBETH? laughs
(THIRD WITCH) Ohh, our little tragedy? They all laugh
Enter Lady Macbeth (spotlight is on Lady Macbeth)Sounds of people crying/agony and dying/screaming She is
holding a candle/light. She runs around the stage acting crazy. Meanwhile, the 3 witches are in the audience
whispering and laughing while telling a spell. Lady Macbeth sings “Come, darkness and hide my evil actions.”
cries then laughs hysterically. The lights will turn on and off. Then someone screams. BLACK OUT. Exit Lady
MACBETH

SCENE 1(The three witches plan their meeting with Macbeth)

DESERT PLACE. Foggy, dark |Lights darken. A clap of thunder and lightning
(Enter 3 Witches. Laughing and dancing near the cauldron.)
ALL WITCHES: (Telling a spell, stirring something in the cauldron)
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Make the gruel thick and slab,
like a hell-broth boil and bubble,
for a charm of powerful trouble.
FIRST WITCH: When shall we three meet again? in thunder, lightning, or in rain?
SECOND WITCH: When the hurlyburly’s done,When the battle’s lost and won.
THIRD WITCH: That will be ere the set of sun.
FIRST WITCH: Where should we meet?
SECOND WITCH: Upon the heath. (On the open field)
THIRD WITCH: There to meet with --
ALL: MACBETH MACBETH MACBETH
(They get a doll/statue that looks like MACBETH after when they say MACBETH’s name)
FIRST WITCH: (Calling to her familiar, a cat) I come, Graymalkin!
SECOND WITCH: (Calling to her familiar, a toad) Paddock calls me.
THIRD WITCH: (Calling to her familiar) I'll be there soon.
ALL WITCHES: (Gather together for a spell then disappear) Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the
fog and filthy air. Laughs (3 distinct laughs)
EXIT 3 WITCHES. Black out.

SCENE 2 A camp near the forest {Macbeth, Banquo, Captain}

(Can be a singing while fighting) The Soldiers are fighting. The Captain is nearly killed by an enemy, Banquo
saves the captain by striking a sword to the enemy while an enemy is going to strike Banquo on the back but
Macbeth saves him. They stand together and defeat soldiers coming their way. Meanwhile the captain is in
awe at them.
Song:
Here we are, don't turn away now
We are the warriors that built this town
Here we are, don't turn away now,
We are the warriors that built this town
From dust.
MACBETH: (to other soldiers) Go get him to a doctor!(pointing to the Captain)
(Enemy soldiers attack MACBETH and Banquo)
MACBETH: (To Banquo) Ready?
BANQUO: Ready! (Macdonwald and thane of Ross, his soldiers come near)
They are about to fight. All Freeze. Lights out. Exit all.
SCENE 3 (Meanwhile there’s a war/rebellion on Scotland and a wounded soldier tells King Duncan the rumore
yet true tales of Scotland about the great hero of the battle which is Macbeth) Sounds of trumpets and soldiers
fighting. King Duncan enters with his sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, Lennox, and a number of attendants. They
meet a wounded and bloody Captain.
KING DUNCAN: What bloody man is that?
MALCOLM: Hail, brave friend. Tell the king about the battle!
CAPTAIN: singing The outcome was in doubt. Our enemies were powerful. But that wasn’t enough because
brave MACBETH—he deserves that description—defied Lady Luck with his sword, which smoked with blood,
and carved through Macdonwald’s army until he faced the rogue. Macbeth split Macdonwald from belly to
jaw and stuck his head on the walls of our castle.
DUNCAN: Oh, heroic cousin! A worthy gentleman!
CAPTAIN: Listen, King of Scotland, listen: as soon as we defeated those Irish soldiers and sent them running,
the Norwegian king spied an advantage and began a new assault with fresh soldiers and sharpened
weapons.
DUNCAN: Dismayed not this our captains, MACBETH and Banquo?
CAPTAIN: (He then falls on his knees from the injury after his last line) About as much as sparrows trouble
eagles, or rabbits scare a lion but as much as I want to tell how they fought bravely with excellency and skill.
....I can't for I feel weak. My wounds are crying out for a doctor.
DUNCAN: Your words speak to your honor—as do your wounds. Get him to a doctor.
(Attendants help the Captain to exit before Ross and Angus enters.)
DUNCAN: Who comes here?
MALCOLM: The worthy Thane of Ross
DUNCAN: Where have you come from, worthy thane?
ROSS: Great King, I've come from Fife. We’ve come here to tell you, through the King of Norway together
with the traitorous Thane of Cawdor began to a battle that our forces looked likely to lose. MACBETH!
He met the rebellious thane sword in hand-to-hand, Macbeth defeated them, We won the battle.
DUNCAN: Great happiness!
ROSS: Now, the Norwegian king, begs for a peace treaty. We refused to let him bury his men until he
retreated to Saint Colme’s Inch and gave us ten thousand dollars.
DUNCAN: (Enter the captured Thane of Ross being dragged by soldiers) The Thane of Cawdor will never
again deceive me. Go proclaim that he will be executed, and tell MACBETH that he will receive Cawdor’s
title. (the attendants strip the medal from the thane of Cawdor)
ROSS: (He gets the medal given by the King) I’ll see it done.
DUNCAN: Noble Macbeth has won what the Thane of Cawdor has lost.
----- They all exit.

SCENE 4 On a heath near the forest{Macbeth, Banquo, 3 Witches, Ross and Angus}
Clap of thunder, and lightning
FIRST WITCH: Where hath you been, sister?
SECOND WITCH: Killing some swine.
THIRD WITCH: And sister, where were you?
FIRST WITCH: (Bragging) I had an evil time! All witches sing and dance
FIRST WITCH: Look what I have
SECOND WITCH: Show me, show me.
FIRST WITCH: (Shows a thumb of a captain) Here I ave a pilot’s thumb wrecked while returning home
(A drum sounds offstage)
THIRD WITCH: A drum, a drum! Macbeth does come.
ALL: (Telling a spell. They danced together in a circle after)The weird sisters, hand in hand, swift travelers
over the sea and land, dance around and around! (2x).....Quiet! The spell is ready.
(MACBETH: and Banquo enters. They look glad and proud because they have won the battle)
MACBETH: (To Banquo) So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
BANQUO: (He sees the WITCHES) What are these creatures? They don’t look like inhabitants of the earth, &
yet here they are on it.
MACBETH: Speak, if you can. What are you?
FIRST WITCH: (They praise MACBETH:) All hail, Macbeth Hail to you, Thane of Glamis!
SECOND WITCH: (She puts a medal to the MACBETH: doll) All hail, MACBETH:! Hail to you, Thane of Cawdor
THIRD WITCH: (She puts a crown to the doll) All hail, MACBETH:, that shalt be king hereafter!
BANQUO: *fake laughs* Good sir, don’t be frightened.This all seems like good news!
BANQUO: (To the WITCHES) What are you? Tell me the truth! Are you fatastic or are you mortals? You
greet my noble friend with great predictions. You even say he will be king? You know so much, speak to me!
Come on! I’m not scared! Speak to me!
FIRST WITCH: (Their attention goes to Banquo) Hail!
SECOND WITCH: Hail!
THIRD WITCH: Hail!
FIRST WITCH: (To Banquo) Lesser than MACBETH: and greater.
SECOND WITCH: Not so happy, yet much happier.
THIRD WITCH: Your descendants will be kings, though you will not be king. So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!
FIRST WITCH: Banquo and MACBETH:, all hail!
MACBETH: Wait! How can I be the Thane of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor is alive—and he is a rich,
strong man too. As for being king, that’s beyond belief. Tell me where you got these stories. I command you
to speak. Why tell us these prophecies? Answer me!
-- The witches vanish. --
BANQUO: Where they’ve gone?
MACBETH: Into the air. Their bodies melted like breath in the wind. I wish that they would have stayed!
BANQUO: Were these creatures that we're discussing ever even here? Or have we both eaten some root
that's given us hallucinations?
MACBETH: Your children will be kings.
BANQUO: You shall be king.
MACBETH: And thane of Cawdor too went it not so?
BANQUO: (Hears people nearby) Those were their exact words. Who’s coming here?
Ross and Angus enter.
(They announce that MACBETH:, The Thane of Cawdor makes the King happy for his success. Ross puts the me
dal to MACBETH:)
ROSS: MACBETH:, the king was happy to learn of your success. He was also at a loss for words to find out
that on the same day you fought the rebels, you also fought against the army of Norway. A stream of
messengers brought news of this to the king, and they gushed with praise for how you defended his country.
ANGUS: We’ve been sent to give you the King’s thanks and to escort you to him, although we don’t have
your reward.
ROSS: (Ross puts on MACBETH:’s medal) But— to give you a hint of the honors coming your way—the king
told me to call you the Thane of Cawdor. Hail, (kneels) most worthy thane, for that title is now yours.
BANQUO: What? Can the devil speak the truth?
MACBETH: The Thane of Cawdor is still alive. How can you pretend that his title is now mine?
ANGUS: The former Thane of Cawdor is still alive, but he’s held under a death sentence. He deserves to die
for the sin he committed and because of it he lost his former title.
MACBETH: (To himself while everyone is frozen and he's the only one moving)
Glamis and Thane of Cawdor with the biggest part of their prophecy yet to come.
(To BANQUO so that only he can hear) Are you starting to believe your children might be kings, since the
witches who said I would be Thane of Cawdor promised they would be?
BANQUO: If you trust them, then it seems you might eventually become king, not just Thane of Cawdor. But
all of this is strange. Often to lead us to harm. They win us over by telling us the truth about unimportant
things, only to betray us when the consequences will be most terrible.
(To Ross and Angus) Gentlemen, speak with me a moment, please.
ROSS, ANGUS, and BANQUO move off to one side.
MACBETH: (To himself. Again everyone froze while he talk to himself) Two of the prophecies have come true,
making it seem like this will end with my rise to the throne.
(Singing the tune: ) (To himself)This supernatural temptation doesn’t seem like it’s a bad thing, but it
can’t be good either. If it’s bad, why did it promise me a success that turned out to be true? I am the Thane
of Cawdor. Why do I find myself thinking about something that is so horrid? All that matters to me are things
that don’t exist.
MACBETH: singing (To himself) If fate wants me to be king, well, maybe fate will give me the throne without
me having to do anything at all.
BANQUO: Macbeth, we’re waiting for you, whenever you’re ready to go.
MACBETH: coughs Pardon me. I was occupied by forgotten thoughts. Kind gentlemen, I won’t forget your
efforts today, and will remember them every day. Let’s go to the king.
(To BANQUO so that only he can hear) Think about what just happened, and let’s discuss it freely soon.
BANQUO: Very gladly.
MACBETH: Till then, enough. (to ROSS and ANGUS) Come, friends. Exit All.

SCENE 5 (King Duncan congratulates Macbeth, he announces Malcolm as his heir)

(A trumpet fanfare sounds.Palace of the king. KING DUNCAN,LENNOX, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, and their
attendants enter. Soon, MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS enters.
DUNCAN: (to MACBETH) My worthiest kinsman! I owe you more than I can ever repay.
MACBETH: The opportunity to serve you is its own reward. We’re only doing what we should.
DUNCAN: You are welcome here. By making you thane of Cawdor, I have planted the seeds of a great
career for you, and I will make sure they grow.
(to Banquo) Noble Banquo, you deserve no less than Macbeth and everyone should know it.
BANQUO: Then if I accomplish anything great, it will be a credit to you.
DUNCAN: sing My joy is so overwhelming it brings tears to my eyes. I want you to witness that I will bestow
my kingdom on my eldest son, Malcolm. Today I name him the prince of Cumberland.
MACBETH: (surprised that Malcolm will become prince) I will go ahead and bring my wife the good news
that you are coming. With that, I’ll be off.
DUNCAN: My worthy Cawdor! (Everyone freezes/stops from moving)
MACBETH: (while Banquo and Duncan is speaking) (singing to himself) To become king myself, I’m either
going to have to step over him or give up, because he’s in my way. I won’t let my eye look at what my hand
is doing but in the end I’m still going to do that thing I’d be horrified to see.
macbeth exits.
DUNCAN: (to Banquo, in the middle of a conversation we haven’t heard) Macbeth is truly man without equal
. Trumpet fanfare. Lights out.They exit

SCENE 6: Macbeth's Abode {Lady Macbeth, Macbeth}

(Spotlight to Macbeth who is writing a letter to lady MACBETH on the downleft side of the stage)
MACBETH: They met me on the day of my success. It’s no doubt that they have supernatural powers because
when I wanted to question them further they vanished into thin air. And as I stood in wonder of it all, messang
ers arrived from the king and call me Thane of Cawdor.
LADY MACBETH: Thane of Cawdor?
MACBETH: Just as the witches have foretold. But they also said…
BOTH: Hail! You shall soon be king!

(Enter Lady Macbeth alone with a letter. She reads the letter that tells about the witches’ meeting with
Macbeth)
LADY MACBETH: (she looks up from the letter) I am sending you these news my dearest partner in greatness
so that you won’t lose a second in enjoying the graces that is promised for you. Keep this news for your heart
and Glamis you are, and now Cawdor? Laughs You shall be as you have been promised. But you are to soft.
You are too full of the milk of human kindness. It will be my brave word that will lead you to the crown.
Sings Dear husband, thanks for your letter. It’s better and better. You’re going to be king. Theres only one
thing. You’d better give it up, to me. You’ve got to give it up to me.
Enter Servant
LADY MACBETH: What news do you bring?
SERVANT: The king is coming here tonight.
LADY MACBETH: You must be crazy to say that! Isn’t Macbeth with the king, and wouldn’t Macbeth have
told me in advance so I could prepare.
SERVANT: I’m sorry, but it’s the truth. Macbeth is coming. He sent a messenger ahead of him who arrived
here so out of breath that he could barely speak his message.
LADY MACBETH: Take good care of him. He brings great news.
-- The SERVANT exits.
LADY MACBETH: (talking to herself and scheming for King Duncan’s death) (it may be a song) He announces
Duncan’s entrance into my fortress, where he will die. Sings Come, you spirits of the night I summon you, enter
witches make me strong like a man. Do what you can. Fill me from head to toe with deadly cruelty so I won’t
feel remorse! Exit witches (She just laughs)
ENTER MACBETH
LADY MACBETH: (excited of his arrival, hugs him) By the all-hail hereafter, Thy letters have transported me
beyond. This ignorant present, and I feel now the future in the instant.
MACBETH: (Lady MACBETH takes MACBETH’s coat off while MACBETH: is speaking)
My dearest and lustrious love, Duncan is coming here tonight.
LADY MACBETH: And when is he leaving?
MACBETH: (pauses for a second).He plans to leave tomorrow.
LADY MACBETH: (but her arm in his chest and speaks in his ear) Sings Dear husband, that day will never
come. Greet the king with a welcoming expression in your eyes, your hands, and your words. You should look
like an innocent flower (fixes MACBETH’s collar while whispering the next line) but be like the snake that hides
underneath the flower.(MACBETH stood and hold Lady MACBETH’s waist with two hands) The king is coming,
and he’s got to be taken care of. Let me handle tonight’s preparation (Lady Macbeth leans to MACBETH
closer) because this night will change every night and day for the rest of our lives. (smirk)
MACBETH: (he seems worried) We will speak further.
LADY MACBETH: You should project a peaceful mood, because if you look troubled, you will arouse
suspicion (She puts her index finger to MACBETH's face to face her) sings Leave all the rest to me. Leave all
the rest to me. They kiss *lights closed*
They EXIT.
(The stage is lit by torches. Hautboys play)
SERVANTS: All hail Duncan, King of Scotland!! (2x)
DUNCAN enters, together with MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF,ROSS, ANGUS, and
theirattendants. LADY MACBETH is assisting King Duncan
[Song: How do you Murder a King.] Everyone freezes. Macbeth enters while singing the song, everyone dances
except King Duncan who stands there like a statue.
They all exit. Hautboys plays as the stage gets lit by torches. The butler and various servants enters carrying
utensils and dishes of food across the stage. Then MACBETH: enters.
MACBETH: singing (As his servants take food and drink to King Duncan and his men, Macbeth thinks of
murdering) If it were done when tis done If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly
This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our own lips. This Duncan Hath
borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office. His virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-t
ongued, against the deep damnation of his taking-off.
ENTER LADY MACBETH:
MACBETH:What’s the news?
LADY MACBETH: He’s already finished his dinner. Why did you leave?
MACBETH:Did he ask where I was?
LADY MACBETH:He has.
MACBETH:I can’t. We shouldn’t do it. I have already earned their trust, especially the King. Don’t you hear
their praises. I don’t want to throw it away!
MACBETH: (singing, tune, evil like me- Maleficent) Look at you, look at me. I don’t know who to be. My dear.
Is it wrong? Is it right? Be a thief in the night! My dear. Tell me what to do!
LADY MACBETH: singing I was once like you, my dear. Slightly insecure. Argued with my conscience, to
thought I was mature. But I put my heart aside, And I used my head! Now I think it’s time you learned what I
will have to say. Don’t you wanna be king like him? Don’t you wanna be king? Don’t you wanna make mischie
f, your daily routine? Well, you can spend your life attending to the poor. But when you’re king, doing less is
doing more. Don’t you wanna be ruthless and rotten and mad? Don’t you wanna be very very good at being
king/bad? We have tried our whole life long, to do the best we can! Clawed our way to victory. Built our m
aster plan. Now the time has come, my dear. For you to take your place. Promise me you’ll try to be. An abs
olute disgrace. Don’t you wanna be king like him? Don’t you wanna be cruel? Don’t you wanna be nasty and
brutal and cool?And when you grab that throne! That’s when your reign begins. Who wants an evil king with
out a sack of sins? Don’t you wanna be heartless? And hardened as stone? Don’t you wanna be finger lickin’
evil to the bone? This is not for us to ponder. This was pre ordained. You and I shall rule together! Freedom s
oon regained. Master of the universe! Powerful and strong! Dearest, hear me, help me, join me. Won’t you si
ng along?
MACBETH AND LADY MACBETH: Now,we’re gonna be rulers, it’s true! Never gonna think twice! And we’re
gonna be spiteful.
MACBETH:But what if we fail?
LADY MACBETH:We won’t, if you man up we won’t fail. As long as King Duncan’s asleep. I’ll get his 2 serva
nts so drunk that they won’t remember anything. They’ll sleep tightly. Leaving Duncan unguarded. Whatever
we would do. We will blame it on them. We’ll cryafter we found out King Duncan is dead.
MACBETH: Go now, and pretend to be a friendly hostess. Hide with a false pleasant face (caresses her face)

Witches enter holding a dagger though Macbeth does not see them
MACBETH: Is this a dagger I see in front of me, with its handle pointing toward my hand? (to the
dagger)Come, let me hold you. (he grabs at the air in front of him without touching anything) I don’t have you
but I can still see you. Fateful apparition, isn’t it possible to touch you as well as see you? Or are you nothing
more than a dagger created by the mind, a hallucination from my fevered brain? I can still see you, and you
look as real as this other dagger that I’m pulling outnow. (he draws a dagger) You’re leading metoward the
place I was going already, and I was planning to use a weapon just like you. My eyesight must either be the
one sense that’s not working, or else it’s the only one that’s working right. I can still see you, and I see blood
splotches on your blade and handle that weren’t therebefore. (to himself) There’s no dagger here. It’s the
murder I’m about to do that’s making me think I see one. Now half the world is asleep and being deceived
by evil nightmares. Witches are offering sacrifices to their goddess Hecate. Old manmurder, having been
roused by the howls of his wolf, walks silently to his destination, movinglike Tarquin, as quiet as a ghost.
(speaking to the ground) Hard ground, don’t listen to the direction of my steps. I don’t want you to echo back
where I am and break the terrible stillness of this moment, a silence that is so appropriate for what I’m about
to do. While I stay here talking, Duncan lives. The more I talk, the more my courage cools.
Bell rings
MACBETH:I’m going now. The murder is as good as done. The bell is telling me to do it. Don’t listen
to the bell, Duncan, because it summons you either to heaven or to hell.

Red and black lights. MACBETH goes into Duncans place. He quietly passes by the drunk servants. One
servant laughs and one says “Murder!” they wake up each other then sleeps again. One servant cried,
“God bless us!” and the other replied, “Amen,” as if they had seen my bloody hands. Listening to their
frightened voices, couldn’t reply “Amen” when they said “God bless us!” He approaches the king. The
dagger falls into his hand which makes him panic. After few seconds, he kills the King.

Black out. Enter Lady Macbeth walking in circles.

LADY MACBETH: I put the servants' daggers where Macbeth would find them. He couldn’t have
missed them. If Duncan hadn’t reminded me of my father when I saw him sleeping, I would have
killed him myself.
Enter MACBETH with a bloody dagger
LADY MACBETH: My love
MACBETH: I have done the deed. Did you hear a noise?
LADY MACBETH: I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. Didn’t you say something?
MACBETH: When?
LADY MACBETH: Just now.
MACBETH: As I came down?
LADY MACBETH: Yes.
MACBETH: Listen! Who’s sleeping in the second chamber?
LADY MACBETH: Donalbain.
MACBETH: (looking at his bloody hands) This is a sorry sight.
LADY MACBETH: That’s a stupid thing to say. Donalbain and Malcolm are in the same room.
MACBETH: One servant cried, “God bless us!” and the other replied, “Amen,” as if they had seen
my bloody hands. Listening to their frightened voices, I couldn’t reply “Amen” when they said “God
bless us!”
LADY MACBETH: Don’t think about it so much. We can’t think that way about what we did. If we
do, it’ll drive us crazy.
MACBETH: I thought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more! Macbeth is murdering sleep.” Innocent
sleep. Sleep that soothes away all our worries. Sleep that puts each day to rest. Sleep that
relieves the weary laborer and heals hurt minds. Sleep, the main course in life’s feast, and the most
nourishing.
LADY MACBETH: What are you talking about?
MACBETH: (hallucinating)The voice kept crying, “Sleep no more!” to everyone in the house.
“Macbeth has murdered sleep, and therefore Macbeth will sleep no more.”
LADY MACBETH: Who said that? Why, my worthy lord, you let yourself become weak when you
think about things in this cowardly way. Go get some water and wash this bloody evidence from
your hands. Why did you carry these daggers out of the room? They have to stay there. Go take
them back and smear the sleeping guards with the blood.
MACBETH: I can’t go back. I’m afraid even to think about what I’ve done. I can’t stand to look at it
again.
LADY MACBETH: Coward! Give me the daggers. Dead and sleeping people can’t hurt you any
more than pictures can. Only children are afraid of scary pictures. If Duncan bleeds I’ll paint the
servants' faces with his blood. We must make it seem like they’re guilty.

Lady Macbeth exits. A sound of knocking from offstage. LADY MACBETH ENTERS.
LADY MACBETH: My hands are bloody as yours. Sound of knocking
LADY MACBETH: Let’s go to our room. Water will wash it all away. Sounds of knocking Snap out of it.
Let’s sleep.
Sounds of knocking offstage. Drunk Porter enters.

May be sung

PORTER:.Sounds of knocking offstage. Knock, knock! Who’s there, in the other devil’s name? Maybe it’s some
slick, two-faced con man who lied under oath. But he found out that you can’t lie to God, and now he’s going
to hell for perjury. Come on in, con man. Sounds of knocking offstage.Knock, knock! Never a moment of
peace! Who are you? Ah, this place is too cold to be hell. I won’t pretend to be the devil’s porter anymore. I
was going to let someone from every profession into hell.(2 times). Sounds of knocking I’m coming, I’m coming!
Please, don’t forget to leave me a tip.
PORTER OPENS THE GATE. MACDUFF AND LENNOX ENTERS.
MACDUFF: What took you so long? What happened to you?
PORTER: Just a little drunk.
MACDUFF: Where’s your master?
-- MACBETH enters
LENNOX: Good morning sir
MACBETH: Good morning.
MACDUFF: Is your highness awake, worthy thane?
MACBETH: He is still asleep.
MACDUFF: Asleep? He told me to wake him up early.
MACBETH: I’ll lead you his chamber.

Exit MACDUFF, he checks the dead King. He then runs toward them and announce that the king has died.

MACDUFF: Oh, horror, horror, horror! This is beyond words and beyond belief!
MACBETH & LENNOX: What happened?
MACDUFF: The King! Someone got into his room, and... the King!
MACBETH: The King?!
LENNOX: What happened?
MACDUFF: Go there and see for yourself.

MACBETH AND LENNOX exits. Bell rings

Wake up! Murder and treason! Get up! Malcolm, Donalbain and Banquo. Everyone wake up!
Lady Macbeth enters
LADY MACBETH: What’s the matter?
MACDUFF: No, my lady. I can’t tell you. It will hurt your ears
Banquo enters
MACDUFF: Banquo, Banquo, the king has been murdered!
LADY MACBETH: Oh, how awful!
BANQUO: What! How terrible! Tell me you are lying.
Macbeth, Lennox and Ross enters Malcolm and Donalbain enters
DONALBAIN: What’s wrong?
MACBETH: You are, and do not know ’t.The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood Is stopped; the very
source of it is stopped.
MACDUFF: Your royal father has been murdered
MALCOLM: Who did it?
LENNOX: It seems like the guards who was supposed to protect the king’s chamber did the deed. They were
found covered with blood in their hands, daggers and face. They woke up confused. No one’s life should be
entrusted to them.
MACBETH: With all the anger, I killed them.
MALCOLM: Why did you do that for?
MACBETH: Who in the right mind would kill the king? Nobody can do that. There was Duncan who was
mercilessly killed by some crazy men! His skin splattered with all the blood, there I saw his murderers, their
daggers covered with Duncan’s blood. Who could have restrained himself, who loved Duncan and had the
courage to act on it? (LADY MACBETH faints)
MACDUFF: Take care of the lady.
MACBETH: Let’s talk about this when we are dressed up. Let’s not grief for now. I put myself in God’s hand
for us to solve this treasonous murder! (Malcolm and Donalbain speaks to each other
MALCOLM: Who could have done this?
DONALBAIN: What if we will be the next?
MALCOLM: Let’s not stay here with them. It’s easy for a liar to pretend to feel sorrow when he actually feels
none. I’m going to England.
DONALBAIN: I’ll go to Ireland. We’ll both be safer if we go separate ways. Wherever we go, men will
smile at us while hiding daggers. Our closest relatives are the ones most likely to murder us.
MALCOLM: We haven’t yet encountered that danger, and the best thing to do is avoid it entirely. With that
in mind, let’s get on our horses. We’d better not worry about saying polite good-byes; we should just get
away quickly. There’s good reason to escape when there’s no mercy to be found anymore. *runs*
MACDUFF: Duncan was buried, his two lawful sons was under suspension for they ran away and fled.
MACBETH: I will truly be the King for he left for Scone to be crowned. [pause] I just hope that things would
not get worse.
ACT 3, SCENE 1
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are walking towards the throne. The priest anoints hims and points the sword to Mac
beth’s shoulder while Lady Macbeth puts the robe to him. (tune: Emperor’s new Clothes)

ALL: Welcome to the end of eras

Ice has melted back to life
Done my time and served my sentence
Dress me up and watch me die
If it feels good, tastes good
It must be mine
Dynasty decapitated
You just might see a ghost tonight

And if you don't know now you know

MACBETH: I'm taking back the crown

I'm all dressed up and naked
I see what's mine and take it (Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh yeah, The crown
So close I can taste it
I see what's mine and take it (Finders keepers, losers weepers)
Oh yeah

ALL: And if you don't know now you know. *back to places*

MACBETH: (indicating BANQUO) At last! Our most important guest had arrived!
LADY MACBETH: Without this man,our bountiful celebration wouldn't be complete and that's not great at all.
MACBETH: (to BANQUO) We'll have a ceremonial banquet tonight and I expect you to be there.
BANQUO: Of course, It will always be a pleasure!
(BANQUO exits and only MACBETH was left alone)
MACBETH: Why did I kill the King if Banquo's successors will inherit the throne? (MACBETH stayed silent while
he thought of ways to stop it from happening. Not seconds later, he call for 2 murderers that'll can kill
Banquo.)
MACBETH: (talking to the two murderers) I'll assign you to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance
BOTH MURDERERS: You're wish is our command, my King.
MACBETH: Let's see if your soul will come to heaven tonight, Banquo.....
(As MACBETH’s thirst for power grows, Lady MACBETH starts to have her doubts.)
LADY MACBETH: We're the Queen and King to the throne but I don't think we're happier. (But MACBETH no
longer needs his wife to spur him to action.)
MACBETH: Don't fret over this useless worry, my love. Be cheerful for a dreadful deed will be done to solve
this. THEY EXIT.

ACT 3 SCENE 2
ENTER 2 MURDERERS WITH 3RD MURDERER
1ST MURDERER: Who told you to come here?
3rd MURDERER: MACBETH
2nd MURDERER: We can trust him. We are given the exact order.
1st MURDERER: Stay with us then. It’s near bedtime. Everyone’s going to their inns. Banquo’s almost here.
3nd MURDERER: (hisses) Listen! I hear them coming.
BANQUO: (off stage) It’s dark in here, give me some light!
2nd MURDERER: That must be him. All the guests are inside.
3rd MURDERER: I hear their horses moving around. The servents must’ve taken them to the stables.
1st MURDERER: He’s going to go this way like everybody else.

Banquo and Fleance enter with a torch.

2ND MURDERER: A light! Here they come!
3rd Murderer: That’s him
1st Murderer: Get ready.
BANQUO: It will rain tonight.
2nd Murderer: Then let the rain come down. Murderers attack Banquo.
BANQUO: Oh! Traitors! Get out of here Fleance! Run, run, run! Someday you’ll get revenge! You, bastards!
Banquo dies. Fleance exits.
3rd Murderer: Who put out the light?
1st Murderer: Isn’t that the best thing to do?
2nd Murderer: The other one ran away!
3rd Murderer: We failed in half of our mission.
1st Murderer: Well, let’s get out of here and tell Macbeth what we did accomplish.
They exit.

Act 3 Scene 4.
(Enter MACBETH: with Lady MACBETH:, Ross, Lennox and nobles with their attendants.
MACBETH: Come, gentlemen. Highest to lowest rank, I think you know were to sit. I bid you hearty welcome.
Come sit!
LORDS: As you please, your majesty.
MACBETH: I will mingle and accompany you as I walk around. My wife will stay on her royal chair, and soon
have her welcome you.
LADY MACBETH: Say welcome to all of our friends for me,with sincerity All of you are welcomed here.

The FIRST MURDERER appears at the door.

MACBETH: The table is full on both sides. I will sit here in the middle. Be free and happy. Soon we will
toast around the table.
(Approaching the door and speaking to the MURDERER) There’s blood on your face.
FIRST MURDERER: Then it must be Banquo’s.
MACBETH: I’d rather see his blood splattered on your face than flowing through his veins. Did you
finish him off?
FIRST MURDERER: My lord, his throat is cut. I did that to him.
MACBETH: You are the best of the cutthroats. But whoever did the same to Fleance must also be good.
If you cut both their throats then you are an absolute best.
FIRST MURDERER: Unfortunately, Fleance has escaped.
MACBETH: Now I’m scared again. Otherwise I would have been perfect, as free as the air itself. But
now I’m all tangled up with doubts and fears. But Banquo’s been taken care of?
FIRST MURDERER:Yes, my good lord. He’s lying dead in a ditch.
MACBETH: Thanks for that, Get out of here. I’ll talk to you again tomorrow. The FIRST MURDERER exits.
LADY MACBETH: My royal lord, you’re not entertaining the guests. If you don’t make your guests know
they’re welcome, they’ll feel like they’re paying for their meal. When you’re eating out with people,
you need to have a little more ceremony. Otherwise dinner parties would be boring.

MACBETH: It’s nice of you to remind me. (raising a glass to toast his guests) Here’s to good appetites, good
digestion, and good health!
LENNOX: Why don’t you have a seat, your highness?
The GHOST OF BANQUO enters and sits in MACBETH’s place.
MACBETH: (Not yet notices the ghost) We would have all the nobility of Scotland gathered under one roof,
if only Banquo were here. I hope it turns out that he’s late out of rudeness, and not because something bad
has happened to him.
ROSS: His absence means he’s broken his promise, sir. If it pleases you, your highness, why don’t you sit with
us and grace us with your royal company?
MACBETH:The table’s full.
LENNOX:Here’s an empty seat, sir.
MACBETH:Where?
LENNOX:(pointing to where the GHOST sits) Here, my good lord. What’s wrong, your highness?
MACBETH:(seeing the GHOST) Which one of you did this? (taken aback)
NOBLES: What, my good lord?
MACBETH: (Scared to the GHOST) You can’t say I did it. Don’t shake your bloody head at me.
ROSS: Gentlemen, stand up. His highness is not well.
LADY MACBETH: Sit down, worthy friends. My husband is often like this, and he has been since he was a
child. Please stay seated. This is just a brief fit. If you pay too much attention to him you’ll make him angry.
Eat your dinner and pay no attention to him.
LADY MACBETH: (speaking so that only MACBETH can hear) Are you a man?
MACBETH: Yes, and a brave one, who dares to look at something that would frighten the devil.
LADY MACBETH: Oh, that’s nonsense! This is just another one of the hallucinations you always get when
you’re afraid. This is like that floating dagger you said was leading you toward Duncan. Shame on you!
Why are you making these faces? When the vision passes, you’ll see that you’re just looking at a stool.
MACBETH: (hides behind Lady MACBETH:) Please, just look over there. Look! Look! See! (to the GHOST)
What do you have to say? What do I care? If you can nod, then speak too.
LADY MACBETH:Stop with these! How can a man like you, act like a little scared girl. Embarassing!
(MACBETH: draws his sword and squats towards the ghost, The nobles stand, comfort him while MACBETH:
backs away, shaking and staring)
LADY MACBETH: Sorry, lords, ladies. The King is unwell. Please leave us now, goodnight. (MACBETH: sits in
his chair, dumbfounded.)
LADY MACBETH: (approaches him and caresses his face) You need sleep my dear.
MACBETH: Macduff! He wasn’t here.
LADY MACBETH: Macduff? What are you talking about?
MACBETH:I’m sure his suspicious. I’ll go to the weird sisters tomorrow.
LADY MACBETH:(confused and thinks) Come, let’s sleep. They exit.

ACT IV SCENE I
The heath (THUNDER AND LIGHTNING)

FIRST WITCH: Hecate, why so mad?

HECATE: Have I not reason, beldams as you are, How did you dare To trade and traffic with
MACBETH: In riddles and affairs of death; And I, the mistress of your charms, The close contriver of all
harms, Was never call'd to bear my part, Or show the glory of our art?
FIRST WITCH: Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
SECOND WITCH: Thrice, and once the hedgepig whined.
THIRD WITCH: Harpier cries – It’s time! It’s time!
ALL WITCHES: Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Eye of newt and toe of
frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's
wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
HECATE: O well done! I commend your pains; And every one shall share i' the gains; And now about
the cauldron sing, Live elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in. (They circle the
cauldron.)
SECOND WITCH: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks,
Whoever knocks! (ENTER MACBETH)
MACBETH: How now, you secret midnight hags! What are you up to now?
ALL WITCHES: A deed without a name! (ENTER APPARITIONS as they speak.)

GHOSTS of DUNCAN and BANQUO stand behind the APPARATIONS

HECATE: (drawing out the armored head and holding it aloft) MACBETH! MACBETH! MACBETH!
beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.
BLOODY CHILD: None of woman born Shall harm MACBETH
CROWNED CHILD: MACBETH. shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill
Shall come against him.

EXIT APPARITIONS, GHOSTS and WITCHES ENTER LENNOX

MACBETH: Saw you the weird sisters?

LENNOX: No, my lord! Macduff has fled to England!
MACBETH: The castle of Macduff I will surprise; Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the sword His
wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line. EXIT ALL

ACT IV SCENE II England

Lady Macduff: Where’s my husband? Why can’t he come here?

Messenger: Madam, he’s busy, the people needs him

LADY MACBETH: We don’t need him, tell him when he asks for us.

Messenger exits.

MACDUFF’S SON: Where’s father?

LADY MACDUFF: He’s not your father anymore. He chose his people instead of us.We don’t need him
anymore.

Enter Mysterious Messenger.

Mysterious Messenger: Get out of here! They’re coming for you!

(Screaming and crying. Lady Macduff with her child running. Murderer’s kill the Child, then Lady
Macduff. Scream)

ENTER MACDUFF and MALCOLM followed by ROSS

MACDUFF: My children too? My wife kill'd too?

ROSS: I have said.
MACDUFF: Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny! Not in the legions Of horrid hell can come a
devil more damn'd In evils to top MACBETH:.
MALCOLM: Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief Convert to anger; blunt not the heart,
enrage it. Come, go we to the king; our power is ready.

ACT V SCENE I MACBETH:'s castle

ENTER LADY MACBETH: sleepwalking followed by SERVANT and DOCTOR. washing her hands.

LADY MACBETH: Out, damned spot! out, I say! Who would have thought the old man to have had so
much blood in him.
LADY: She has spoke what she should not.
LADY MACBETH: To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate: come, come, come, come, give me your
hand. What's done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!
DOCTOR: This disease is beyond my practice More needs she the divine than the physician. God, God
forgive us all! Look after her. EXIT ALL.

(Soldiers are in a forrest and cutting trees as camouflauge) ENTER MACBETH:

MACBETH: Bring me no more reports; let them fly all: Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot
taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm? Was he not born of woman? ENTER MESSENGER
MACBETH: The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where got'st thou that goose look?
MESSENGER: There is ten thousand...
MACBETH: Geese?
MESSENGER: Soldiers, sir!
MACBETH: Go prick thy face. What soldiers, patch?
MESSENGER: The English force, so please you.
MACBETH: I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd. Give me my armour. (A cry is heard from
offstage.)
Enter Macbeth followed by MESSENGER
MESSENGER: The queen is dead.
(MACBETH cries out and runs to the battle.)

ENTER MACDUFF, MALCOLM, LENNOX, and ROSS and other SOLDIERS Fighting across the stage. EXIT
ALL // except MACDUFF and MACBETH

MACDUFF: Yield thee, coward!

MACBETH: I will not yield, To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet.
MACBETH: (Laughs)No man born of a woman shall kill me
MACDUFF: I am not woman born. Untimely ripped. (MACBETH is surprised)

EXIT MACDUFF and MACBETH still fighting.

ENTER MALCOLM, ROSS, LENNOX, and SOLDIERS followed by MACDUFF with MACBETH:'s head.

MACDUFF: Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands The usurper's cursed head

ALL: Hail, King of Scotland!

MALCOLM: So ends our tale of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen, Who, as 'tis thought, by
self and violent hands Took off her life; this, and what needful else That calls upon us, by the grace of
Grace, We will perform in measure, time and place: So, thanks to all at once and to each one, Whom
we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.

EXIT ALL

YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN