Year 12 Macbeth Excursion

“What's done cannot be undone”

Year 11 English Advanced students attended a live performance of Macbeth, staged by Sport for Jove Productions. Supplementing their study of ‘Module A: Narratives that Shape Our World’, students were able to experience a modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy and gain insight into the theatrical form.

The story of Macbeth: An unexpected prophecy at the close of a devastating war sends a national hero and his brilliant wife on a feverish and murderous quest for absolute power. With startlingly beautiful language, Shakespeare’s revered tragedy tears open the thin fabric between the temporal and magical worlds

Shakespeare combines Scottish and English history with Greek myth to one simple end – to capture what it is to be human. What happens to us when we sacrifice our humanity to get ahead? We live in such a time, an unprecedented era that idolises fame and celebrity above leadership and morality. In such a time and place, perhaps even nature begins to fight back.