My Daughter A Witch

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Shakespeare's plays are too difficult for my students to act out. They are too long and the language is too archaic. Dialogues are too lengthy to memorize. What I do is this - I pick some interesting scenes from Shakespeare's plays, shorten and simplify the dialogues, make the students practise for a week and put it up on the stage on a Sunday evening, when the whole community gathers in the hall. Recently, I simplified and abridged the scene from Macbeth where Macbeth meets the three witches. My daughter acted the role of the first witch. She and her two friends were very convincing and the ghosts that appeared caused enough scare among the spectators!