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lady macbethDIRTBAG SHAKESPEARE imagines modern remakes of Shakespearean plays with a teenage dirtbag cast. The rest is pretty self-explanatory. Most recently: Dirtbag Romeo & Juliet.

THREE WITCHES appear on the heath. 
WITCH #1: have you ever killed a pig
MACBETH: what
WITCH #2: do you want to be king
MACBETH: king of what
WITCH #3: king of jerking off
jesus
“king of what”

 

MACBETH: do you think I would make a good king
LADY MACBETH skateboards across the hall
LADY MACBETH: king of jerking off maybe

 

MACBETH is sleeping. LADY MACBETH pops a BMX wheelie over their bed.
LADY MACBETH: you should kill duncan
MACBETH: idk
LADY MACBETH: or i could do it
MACBETH: what
LADY MACBETH: its fine ill do it
brb
LADY MACBETH wheelies offstage.

 

MACBETH: arent you going to wash your hands
LADY MACBETH: lol what
no
MACBETH: youre covered in blood
LADY MACBETH: lets make out
MACBETH: what
LADY MACBETH: it’ll be metal as hell
MACBETH: i don’t know
LADY MACBETH: god it’s like being married to my fucking grandmother

 

duncanMACBETH is sleeping. LADY MACBETH straddles his body and kisses him while smearing blood across his face.
MACBETH: WHAT THE FUCK
LADY MACBETH: i wanted to make out
now were even
MACBETH: EVEN FOR WHAT

 

LADY MACBETH: you know who else we should kill
MACBETH: who
LADY MACBETH: that one guy
your friend
MACBETH: feel like we’ve already killed a lot of my friends
LADY MACBETH: then we could throw a PARTY
and make out

 

BANQUO’S GHOST appears.
MACBETH: don’t do that
come on
don’t look at me
don’t fucking do that
don’t be an asshole
BANQUO’S GHOST does not move.
MACBETH: fucking asshole

 

SEYTON: your wife is dead
MACBETH: who
SEYTON: your wife
Lady Macbeth
MACBETH: yeah well
she probably would have died tomorrow
SEYTON: what
MACBETH: or whenever
i mean we’re all going to die someday
so it doesn’t really matter

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