The Legend of The Scottish Play :: Urban Legends

The Legend of The Scots Play1) BackgroundI converseed a first-year theater major at the University on the topic of urban legends. The interview was conducted in my dormitory room. The nineteen-year-old female college student is originally from Delaw atomic number 18, and her parents are both(prenominal) real estate appraisers. When inquired ab go forth urban legends, she recalled the theater lore and superstitions that she knew about as an actress. The interviewee was particularly eager to talk about the curse associated with Macbeth, the Scottish Play. 2) Transcription of the Legend of the Scottish PlayMacbeth Thats not a superstition Thats truth and fact gestures emphatically with fist If you do Macbeth, something problematic will happen if you say, Macbeth in the theater, something naughtily will happen. I take over true stories to testify to that one. Lets see, umm what show were we doing?... Our Town, we were doing Our Town. And there are clears throat people in my school kindred to mess with people like me who believe in the Macbeth superstition, and so theyll go into the theater and theyll just go, MACBETH and I will freak out and I tell them to go out of doors and device around three times and spit over their left hand shoulder, because thats the antidote. But they dont, because theyre trying to mess with me, and something bad always happens. So when were doing Macbeth, this kid, who is one of the stage managers, I wasnt there when it happened so I couldnt make him go outside, however my director told me that he said, Macbeth, in the theatre, and so I was like freaking out and everyone was like, dont freak out, its not a swelled script, but it was, because our curtain broke. That day. Later that day, the curtain broke. It was two days before the show. Yeah. His fault. Another example. We were doing Romeo and Juliet and okay, now I know this is not an accident, but it doesnt matter. Still, somebody said Macbeth in the t heatre, and I told them to go outside and spin around but they didnt do it, and then somebody take all my costumes, and I was Juliet so it was kind of a big deal and kind of bad.It came from, because the um, the spells that are said