thebaconsandwichofregret:

adricthemindnimon:

the-full-shakespearience:

dukeofbookingham:

dukeofbookingham:

YEP

This just came around on my dash again

I’m in rehearsals for Macbeth right now and this line is always hilariously underwhelming.

Oh, but this is exactly the kind of thing I love as an actor! If nothing can “remove the tone of small talk”, then let the line be small talk. Does he think it’s a joke, and he’s playing along? Is he clamping down on his emotions? Does he just not know what to say, and this is the only thing that comes out of his mouth? If “gasping and mimed horror” don’t do the trick, stop doing it. Let the line be what it’s trying to be, and find the truth and the weight in that.

Oooh! That’s so clever!