Direct Actor Playing Macbeth

... Direct the actor playing "Macbeth" In Act 2 Scene 1, Macbeth is waiting for the signal to murder Duncan. When he says lines 34 to 64, I think he (the actor) should vary his loudness of voice all through the speech. I think this because he is seeing an illusion, and would therefore be going slightly hysterical and forgetting his situation in places, allowing his voice to raise. However, he would realise what he is about to do and should then lower his voice. In some places I think he would even whisper, as he would not want anyone to hear him. When Macbeth says "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight" I think that the actor should stretch out a hand in front of him. He should do this because he is trying to figure out whether the dagger is real or not, so would try

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