What is a Scottish game?

"Scottish Play" is a euphemism for Shakespeare's game Macbeth that uses many actors when they want to refer to the game without saying a name, from respect to the superstitions that surround the game. According to legends, it can say the name of the game or quotation from it in the theater can reduce unlucky in theater and actors. Of course, the exception of this rule is when the real performance of Macbeth , in which case, must of course quote from the game. Probably, Macbeth has been plagued by accidents, deaths and bad luck for theaters, although it seems that empirical analysis does not indicate that the Scottish game is more dangerous than any other game. Some people suggested that the witches in the game throw real spells or that real witches were offended by the content of the game and they put a curse on it. More practical historians have suggested that a large number of combat scenes in the game exposes people the risk of accidents.

macbeth was also historically used by combat theater companies to make the season profitable. As a result, a high proportion of theaters has historically failed after the Scottish game, but not because of the game. Rather, the decision to perform the game was a symptom of a major problem.

actors are generally very superstitious and the beliefs of Scottish game are just a small part of the complex superstition structure that can be found in theaters of large and small. If someone breaks the macbeth rule, is usually obliged to perform a ritual to avert the tsmůl such as leaving the room and knocking to accept, turn three times, spit over the right shoulder or citation of line from another Shakespeare game ..

Older actors often tell new and young actors horror stories about Scottish game, and many actors about the ceremony of passing, are involved in initiating the theater community. This euphemism refers to the Scottish game settings as well as other alternative names such as "Macker's" or "Macscottish play ". Other actors can simply refer to this as" Bard's game "or" the one game ". The main character, Macbeth, is often called "Mr. M" to avoid M-Word, and his wife is known as "Lady M".