Introduction

Hi everybody. My name is Sydney, and I’m a writer, communicator, speaker and actress. I have a blog, called Let’s Be Adventurers where I write about life and things. I write a lot of poetry. I’ve been in two homeschool Shakespeare plays. I wish it would’ve been more but I just didn’t know about them until more recently. This last May I had the tremendous honor of playing Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is a really great Shakespearean story and I believe that, it being a play and not a book, there’s a lot of descriptiveness that we miss out on about some truly great characters. So that’s why I’ve decided to help with this project. Matt and I will be writing the preceding stories of Macbeth and his Lady. DISCLAIMER, this story will not be historically accurate necessarily. We understand that the Macbeths were real people. We are not writing about these people we are writing about Shakespeare’s characters. So, sit back, relax and enjoy the stories of Regan and Kay, Before Macbeth.

And I’m Matthew. This little co-writing project was the result of Sydney and I performing in the play MacBeth, as the partners in treason. I’m a meticulous actor and I tend to create elaborate backstory to power my performances. When Sydney wrote up a little piece on the first meeting of the MacBeths, I was actually really shocked to see how it matched up with my vision of MacBeth’s backstory. So one or both of us suggested that we should write a full on series of the events that led up to the play MacBeth, including the events before they met that caused them to become the people that they were. A few days later, we had names and a timeline. We’ll be delivering a new story every week. We hope you enjoy this project of ours. We call it Before MacBeth. Also, if the anachronisms bother you... This is a work of fiction. Please put your in depth understanding of Gaelic history aside. Thank you.