[Setting: A trailer on the set of the new Macbeth musical entitled ‘Macbeth: The Musical’. A desk, a background with a picture showing the setting is, indeed, a trailer, a promotional poster for the musical on the wall. On the desk, a laptop on which an actress is typing. ]
Summer: (To herself) To-do list number two: listen to Evil Woman, from Act two, scene three. Okay, here we go.
[With a sigh, Summer starts the song and listens intently as the Black Sabbath song starts to drift around the room.]
‘I’ve seen a look of evil in your eyes
You’ve been filling me all full of lies
Sorrow will not change your shameful deeds
Do well best, someone else has better seen
Evil woman, don’t you play your games with me’ [As the song plays for Summer, her
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She is merely vowing to assist Macbeth in fulfilling the supernatural prophecies. Surely this writer isn’t misogynistic enough to construct his Lady Macbeth as the sole culprit of the heinous crimes committed in Shakespeare’s masterpiece?
I swear to Hecate, this writer better hope that it’s just this song.
[Flipping through the script a bit, her eyes scan over a page or two
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No, no, no, no, no! Gah!
[She throws the script down to the desk/floor before throwing her hands up in exasperation.]
Summer: It’s riddled with blatant patriarchal-driven oppression! How dare he reincarnate this once-great play as nothing but a cesspool of misogyny? I can’t- No.
[Shaking her head she reaches for her phone that is on the desk and quickly taps in a number only to be met with the dull, monotone voice of her writer informing her to “leave a message at the beep”. Sarcastically, she responds:]
Summer: Jeffrey? Hi, it’s Summer. You know, the actress channelling the unnatural, cold-blooded, emotionally-depraved murderer in your allegedly contemporary production of Macbeth?
[Summer picks up the script from where she threw it, standing in front of the laptop set upon the desk. She begins to