During the Term 1 holidays: I was offered a role in an Audiobook project at Wesley College by teacher Mr Roberts, it was a last-minute offer and I decided I would take up the offer and learn a couple of things on the way. “Macbeth” is a tragic play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth. Encouraged by a prophecy, Macbeth becomes consumed by ambition and commits regicide to seize the throne. However, his actions lead to a spiral of guilt, paranoia, and bloodshed, ultimately leading to his own tragic downfall. there would be 1 rehearsal a week which was a 6-hour

rehearsal every Sunday. This whole process was directed by a professional director Michael who studied Drama Shakespeare in WAPA. Personally, I would like to specially mention Michael as he controlled this whole process perfectly and I believe he displayed his capability of responsibility so well to produce confidence in all 8 of us students during the Macbeth project. I was assigned with multiple roles of the witch, Sergeant, Ross, Lennox. Playing multiple roles is something I rarely do in terms of performance, but I think this helped me the most to look at an objective with so many different perspectives, varying from good and bad, evil, and mysterious. Playing 4 different characters required me to manipulate my voice to create different personas to go along with the specific character, and Macbeth really helped me enhance my characterisation.

This Macbeth project taught me about how to be resilient and patient when it comes to a process, as my director Michael once said, “Trust the process!”. It was not all ups and good times, there were definitely moments when the project was a bit shaky, however, we all stuck to our work and persevered with this project.  Working as a team and collaborating with the other 7 students was a joy and I really love working with people and getting to learn off others to improve on myself.

Macbeth also helped me articulate and pronounce my words more clearer and stronger, as the project was an audiobook, it was important to understand that if we didn’t speak clearly enough for the readers to understand, they will most certainly have a difficult time following the plot and understanding the play in general. I believe I can speak much stronger than I could before, and I really enjoy public speaking as a whole.

To summarise everything, I am very grateful towards Mr Roberts for giving me the opportunity to show myself in this new audiobook project, I really enjoyed the whole process, and I would love to do more projects and plays with Michael and the rest of the team.