A Haunting in Cawdor Page #4

The curse can only be kept back

so long if you keep

summoning it, okay?

Okay, Mackenzie.

The lady queen is the

devilish wife of our hero

and her deadly

ambition drives him to

murder so that he can be

king and she can be queen.

Subsequently, their murders

drive her to madness.

Now let me ask you

something, Mackenzie.

Have you ever wanted

anything in life so badly

that you would go to

any extreme to get it?

Yeah.

This one time.

No no, don't tell

us, don't tell us.

Use the secret inside of you.

If you share too

much, you lose all

that magic and power,

you understand?

Just use the words, okay?

Whenever you're ready.

I have given suck

and know how tender

'tis to love the

babe that milks me.

I would, while it

was smiling in my

face, have plucked my nipple.

Um, okay, okay,

hold it right there.

Chuck, if I could have all

the ladies on stage please.

Life happens from the inside and

leaves you from your pores.

It's the same with acting.

You absorb it

inside and only then

can we see the affect outside.

Understand?

Never say result.

I'm sorry, what's

your name again?

Tina.

Thank you, Tina,

how did you feel

about Mackenzie's reading?

It sucked.

F*** you.

Okay, Mackenzie, how did that

make you feel when

she said that?

You feel what, regret?

Humiliation?

Embarrassment, anger?

Right?

Same things I feel

every time I look

in the mirror in the morning.

That's oozing out of

your pores right now.

That's what we

want, don't act, be.

Okay?

You all have the potential

to do something great,

you just feel it inside, use it.

Don't fight it, just let it be.

You have a very expressive

face, you're very free.

Give it another shot?

Okay, all right,

Chuck, who's next?

[Charles] Teri.

[Lawrence] Okay, Teri,

let's give it a go.

I have given suck,

and know how tender

'tis to love the

babe that milks me.

I would, while it was

smiling in my face,

have plucked my nipple from his

boneless gums and

dashed the brains

out had I so sworn as

you have done to this.

Okay, Teri, you

have just told your

husband you would

pull your newborn baby

off your nipple, while

it was still feeding,

and kill it by

smashing its skull.

I want you to go

back and look at

that sense with

that in mind, okay?

Thank you.

All right Chuck, next please.

Vivian, front and center.

Okay Vivian,

whenever you're ready.

Come, you spirits that

tend on mortal thoughts.

Unsex me here, and

fill me from the

crown to the toe, top-full

of direst cruelty;

make thick my blood,

stop up the access,

and passage to remorse

that no compunctious

visitings of nature

shake my fell purpose,

nor keep peace between

the effect and it.

Come to my woman's breasts

and take my milk for gall,

you murdering ministers,

wherever in your

sightless substances you

wait on nature's mischief.

That was...

That was very good, Jeannette.

Vivian, sir.

Oh, Vivian, I meant Vivian.

Yeah.

Chuck, give me a

moment here please.

What's going on?

Why?

Not here, Tess, let's

talk outside, okay?

Come on, let's talk outside.

You're really gonna

do this play again?

Are you sick?

Have you finally snapped?

No I haven't.

I need to open this up,

we need to open this up.

Nothing needs to be opened up.

Nothing!

I forbid you to do it.

What are you

talking about forbid,

you're not in any position

to forbid anything.

You know the agreement, I

keep creative control here.

You're gonna cast

that young girl

as the queen, aren't you?

Yeah, I think so.

Because you're f***ing her?

Hey, that is way out of line!

I maintain a

professional relationship

with these kids

and you know that!

Like the kind you

had with Jeannette?

Are you gonna

drag that up again?!

Nothing happened, all right?!

She just had an infatuation

with me, that's all!

This play is cursed, Larry!

Oh come on, that's

just superstition.

It cursed us!

We can't keep living

in the past, Tess.

We need new memories.

I need to do this.

Okay, Larry.

But what's done

cannot be undone.

We're all going to regret this.

(dramatic music)

(car revs)

[Vivian] Jeanette.

(eerie music)

(thunder booming)

- Please, Vivian!

Find me!

Help me!

(thunder booming)

(dramatic sting)

Help me, Vivian.

I want you to know I'm

not a big fan of medication.

Why?

Well they tend to

dull your senses.

You read very well

the other day.

This is an important

role for you.

Why do you say that?

Because of all the things

you're holding onto inside.

What do you mean?

Doctor Lazarus

told me everything.

Everything?

Mmmhm.

Wanna talk about it?

No.

How am I supposed

to get through to you,

Vivian, if you

don't let me inside?

The whole point of

this process is to

get you guys to

lower your defenses.

It's all about honesty, sharing.

I can't help you if

you don't help me.

You know, the theater

is a lot like therapy.

You can express

yourself and say things

on stage that you don't

get to do in real life.

You can show a side

to yourself that

even your best friends

have never seen.

I don't have any best friends.

I know.

I think this part

can give you a chance

to communicate your feelings.

Let those demons go

that torment you.

And they do torment

you, don't they, Vivian?

I want you to know...

We can get through

this together.

It's what I'm here for.

Thank you.

Can I go now?

Mmhm, sure.

[Charles] Hey

George, you wanna take

the ladies out for

some yard work?

Men, go wait in the wings.

[George] Come on,

girls, let's go.

Come on, move it!

Chuck, can you send Vivian

Miller down here please?

As the queen, she needs

to watch the auditions.

Let's go!

All right Chuck, who's first?

[Charles] Brian.

Just read any part.

Okay Brian, which part

will you be reading?

Malcolm.

Whenever you're ready.

What I believe

I'll wail, what know

believe and what I can redress,

as I shall find the

time to friend, I will.

What you have spoke,

it may be so perchance.

This tyrant, whose

sole name blisters

our tongues, was

once thought honest.

You have loved him well; he

hath not touched you yet.

I am young, but

something you may deserve

of him through me and

wisdom to offer up a

weak, poor, innocent lamb,

I appease an angry god.

Okay, thank you, Brian,

that was very nice, thank you.

Was that it?

Yeah.

Did I get the part?

Well all the

roles will be posted

on the work board outside.

Shakespeare's sh*t.

I'm sorry, what did you say?

I said Shakespeare's sh*t!

Oh really?

Let me tell you

something, Brian.

Shakespeare died

over 300 years ago,

but he's still being

talked about today.

Who will remember

you three minutes

after you're dead, huh?

Will you have

accomplished anything

of any value or

worth in your life?

The system and

everybody else has

given up on you, but

I haven't, not yet.

All right Chuck, who's next?

(dramatic music)

(no audio)

(heavy breathing)

(knocking)

Password?

Open the damn door!

(laughs) About damn time.

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