Living With Lady Macbeth

By Rob John

Synopsis:

Everybody thinks Lily Morgan is very ordinary and rather dull. They are all wrong.

As Lily prepares to audition for the part of Lady Macbeth in the school’s forthcoming production, she has a fight on her hands. The beautiful and popular Stephanie Boyce has been comfortably in the limelight for years and doesn't believe that someone as stereotypically "reliable" and "nice" as Lily stands a chance of getting in her way. But not only does Lily have to convince the entire school of her talents, but also her unimaginative boyfriend and her preoccupied mother, who are both fond of Lily but can't understand her fatal attraction to the Scottish play. Only Lily's best friend, Mon, stands by her and begins to realise the lengths Lily is willing to go to in order to be heard...

Two exceedingly talented casts from Next Stage Youth perform on alternate nights, giving two separate takes on this wonderful study of power, ambition and one girl's battle to challenge everybody's expectations.

This show was performed at The Mission Theatre, Bath in September 2009.

Director/s | Cast:

Georgi Bassil

Director

Yvonne Paulley

Director (Heather cast)

Lydia Cook

Lily Morgan (Lavender Cast)

Nicci Whitwham

Monica (Lavender)

Alice Sibley

Mother (Lavender)

Naomi Wilcox

Ms Bevis (Lavender)

Beckii Wilcox

Stephanie Boyce (Lavender)

Lydia Bowden

Suzanne Porter (Lavender)

Rose Jeremiah

Lorraine Ferguson (Lavender)

Emma Cross

Caroline Pritchett (Lavender)

Francesca Wilcox

Abigail Pritchett (Lavender)

Fiona Jamieson

Gail Bentley (Lavender)

Oscar Davenport

Alex (Lavender)

Philip Davies

Barry (Lavender)

Rosie Aitchison

Lily Morgan (Heather)

Ellie Sims-Hilditch

Monica (Heather)

Jenny McGlynn

Mother (Heather)

Lucie Webber

Ms Bevis (Heather)

Katya Rushford

Stephanie Boyce (Heather)

Lauren Stewart

Suzanne Porter (Heather)

Pippa Lampkin

Lorraine Ferguson (Heather)

Ellen Simpson

Caroline Pritchett (Heather)

Ellie Hawking

Abigail Pritchett (Heather)

Alisha Ganapathy

Gail Bentley (Heather)

Miles Aiken

Alex (Heather)

Nick Stumpff

Barry (Heather)

Tom Ash-Miles

Macbeth

Review/s of Living With Lady Macbeth:

Review 1: Opening night

Next Stage Youth has split into two for this production, playing alternate performances and the first night was for the younger group. Younger in this case meaning from 11 years old and upwards – the sort of age when fun usually involved a catapult or matches for me. Luckily this group has more ambition, and the play isn't really about Lady Macbeth but adolescence and the problems that abound at…click here to read the whole review.

By Philip Horton, Bath Chronicle

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