Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited.The 30-Minute Shakespeare is a new series of abridgements that tell the story of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeares language intact. Specific stage directions and character suggestions give even inexperienced actors the tools to perform Shakespeare with confidence, understanding, and fun This cutting of MACBETH is edited to seven key scenes, opening with the Weird Sisters predicting Macbeths fate. Also included are Macbeth and his villainous wife plotting to murder King Duncan, the appearance of Banquos ghost at the banquet, the Witches unforgettable double double toil and trouble scene, and Lady Macbeths riveting out, damned spot sleepwalk. In the finale, the entire cast recites Macbeths poignant tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow speech in unison.The edition also includes an essay by editor Nick Newlin on how to produce a Shakespeare play with novice actors, and notes about the original production of this abridgement at the Folger Shakespeare Librarys annual Student Shakespeare Festival.