The Legend of The Scottish Play :: Urban Legends

The Legend of The Scottish Play1) BackgroundI interviewed a freshman theater major at the University on the takings of urban legends. The interview was conducted in my dormitory room. The nineteen-year-old female college student is originally from Delaware, and her parents are both real estate appraisers. When inquired about urban legends, she recalled the theater apprehension and superstitions that she knew intimately 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 bad will happen if you say, Macbeth in the theater, something bad will happen. I have align stories to testify to that champion. Lets see, umm what show were we doing?... Our Town, we were doing Our Town. And there are clears throat people in my school like to mess with peo ple 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 outside and eddy around troika times and spit over their left 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, but 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 big deal, but it was, because our curtain broke. That day. Later that day, the curtain broke. It was two geezerhood 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 theatre, and I told them to go outside and spin around b ut they didnt do it, and then somebody stole all my costumes, and I was Juliet so it was conformation of a big deal and kind of bad.It came from, because the um, the spells that are said