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. Welcome to Spears podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And we are two weird sisters hand in hand. So I am so excited, Julia. Perhaps top 10

episodes I'm excited to record because we are talking today about Macbeth. McBeth. Yes. So this is

another one of our supernatural Shakespeare episodes. I think that's what I'm

decided to call these. Very nice. You know, three episodes. And I finally come up with the title. Very,

very classic. You got to make sure it fits. We got to make sure it settles. Of course, of course. But this

one is, I think, near and dear to both of our hearts. And that is, of course, Macbeth. Now, Amanda, I mean, we can talk about our experience with the production of Macbeth, but do you want to talk about your experience and thoughts on the play?

Gosh, I just love this play so much.

We talk often about the fact that we were in a very intense high school theater program, and this is the show that was like my senior thesis and yours too, because you, in my recollection, were fully in charge of the props for the first time, including a prodigious amount of fake blood.

So much fake blood. Yeah, it was a lot. And I stage managed it. It felt like my project. And it was so exciting. It was really my first

experience of like engaging deeply with a text and watching it go from, you know, to the extent that a

bunch of teenagers can, reading these words, figuring out what they meant, seeing performances that

even looking back, I think were genuinely very good. And a set and a show that I was really proud of.

And so to this day, just being around it, you know, reading essentially the entire play every day for like two and a half months, I can quote pretty much the entirety of the play.

I wrote about it. That's impressive. Yeah, for a lot of my high school like standardized testing exams to the extent that once someone was like,

did she have a copy of this with her? And they're like, no, she's just weird. That's true.

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