'Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done it.'
Thus the rôle must be played from beginning to end, Lady Macbeth as a woman, a weak woman, who knows her weakness:
'These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad....'
a woman who at the end breaks down under the stress of the effort she has made. You must produce, as if by magic, love and pity for Lady Macbeth in the hearts of the audience, and never be a vulgar, awful criminal, a Gorgon, as actresses generally understand, or rather misunderstand the Lady."
"It will mean hard work," said Mitzi, "but I am not afraid. I mean to do it."
And turning to me she added:
"You had better begin working."
Indeed, I started that very evening.