The Players' 'Macbeth: The Rehearsal' 2025

Presented by Bell Shakespeare
 The Players' 'Macbeth: The Rehearsal' 2025
Outstanding. Lively, fun, energetic and educational.
Joyce Conte, Sir Joseph Banks High School NSW

By Joanna Erskine

A director has called their two leading actors to a special rehearsal of the ‘Scottish Play’, and your students are invited to observe. The show opens in two weeks and things are not looking good. It’s crunch time to engage with Shakespeare’s classic tragedy and transform text into performance. Become a fly on the wall for this fictional rehearsal, with illuminating and entertaining results.

Macbeth: The Rehearsal invites students to play observer and participant in this immersive and interactive show. Watch The Players play and replay with famous scenes and soliloquies from Macbeth. Witness the play’s trajectory blur with the actors’ own journeys, discovering key motivations, themes, language techniques and plot devices. This is a show that celebrates theatre-making, storytelling and the power of the imagination, within an engaging contemporary narrative.

The Players are Bell Shakespeare’s touring ensemble of professional artists who bring Shakespeare to life in schools and communities across Australia.

50-minute performances are paired with a 10-minute Q&A for an action-packed hour of Shakespeare immersion. Each show comes with its own comprehensive Online Learning Pack to ensure you can make the most of the performance with pre- and post-show resources and exercises.

Each performance explores key scenes and soliloquies, analysis of Shakespeare’s language, choices and themes and contemporary commentary all wrapped up in a fresh, modern narrative.

The Players are sure to be a favourite of students and teachers alike. Book one show or host us for the entire day. Forget booking buses, let us come to you. We’re looking forward to delivering high-energy Shakespeare shows in your school.

BOOKINGS

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Show Details

Type

incursion

Year Level Suitability

10 - 12

Curriculum area

The Arts - Drama English

Themes

Artform

Duration

1 hour

Cost

$1,300 per performance for up to 140 students. Additional students $9 each up to max audience of 200. $1,100 per performance for schools with an ICSEA value of 1000 or less, for up to 140 students. Additional students $8 each up to max audience of 200.

Term

Term 2 Term 3

Availability

NSW: 5 – 10 May, 19 – 25 May, 2 – 22 June, 21 – 27 July, 4 – 17 August, 8 – 28 September

ACT: 19 May – 1 June

VIC: 28 July – 10 August

TAS: 16 – 29 June

NT: 14 – 20 July

QLD: 14 – 20 July

WA: 18 – 31 August

SA: 18 August – 7 September

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