ORIGINAL PRACTICE-THE SCOTTISH
i.e. The words first. Shakespeare second.
Or, Character as defined by the words.
MACBETH Male 715 lines
LADY Female 259 lines
MALCOLM Male 211 lines
MACDUFF Male 180 lines
ROSS Male 135 lines
BANQUO Male 113 lines
Banquo the warrior and king-maker, with his 6th largest speaking role, our focus
and his 113 spoken lines constituting the battlefield.
Original Practice means working with cue scripts and original pronunciation.
The cue scripts derive from the Friendly Folio series by Patrick Tucker and Christine Ozanne. 
The original pronunciation derives from the world’s leading expert on OP, David Crystal.
So analysing my cue script I find:
12 four word cues lead into Banquo speaking in act 1 scene 3,
Then 1 cue in Act 1-scene 4,
And 1 cue in Act 1-scene 6.
Banquo speaks the first words followed by 7 short cues in Act 2 scene 1,
Then 3 cues in Act 2-scene 3.
Banquo speaks the first words comprising an actual soliloquy
followed by a further 5 cues to speak in Act 3 scene 1.
3 cues to speech and his untimely death in Act 3 scene 3.
Further 2 short spoken cues herald entrances of his speechless, gory-locked ghost in Act 3-scene 4.
Furthermost 1 final cue announces the entrance of his ghost, who punctuates the 8 generations of Kings he spawned.
This series of blog posts will be about working within this realm of Original Practices.
The outcome will be a one day (sold out) performance at the indoor Sam Wanamaker playhouse in Southwark’s outdoor Globe Theatre, on 20th July, 2014.
Excitement hardly contains what we feel about this project.
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