Macbeth production process (Character Analysis)

Character analysis 

I was assigned the role of Macduff, whom had a wife and two children. Macduff is a quiet man who is respected when he speaks and has loyalty to his country. He flees Scotland in order to assist Malcolm, King Duncan's son and heir, in developing an army to overtake Macbeth. In the end, Macduff murders Macbeth and Malcolm becomes the rightful king.

The challenges of playing Macduff:

1. Playing a male character. 
2. Having a fight scene. 
3. The grief scene (where he finds out his wife and kids has been killed).
4. Playing a character outside my comfort zone in general.

Playing a male character:

playing a male character was hard for me as I'm a female and i had to change my characteristics and my aura. However i believed that i did this quite well. the way i was able to over come this was be watching and playing attention to the way the boys in my class would act, walk even their posture. this helped me to be a more realistic Macduff.

Having a fight scene:

I was in a fight scene, which was also something new for me. for starters the correct word for it is called Stage combat. Here is a bit of a definition for it.
Stage Combat:
Stage combat or fight choreography is a specialised technique in theatre designed to create the illusion of physical combat without causing harm to the performers. It is employed in live stage plays as well as operatic and ballet productions.
The reason it was hard for me was because it's all about creating a illusion and not actually hurting the person that your performing with, when doing stage combat the timing is very important because if anything is off your parent could be hurt or a less dramatic problem is that it just doesn't look realist. The problem with it not looking realist is that as we perform to people there is no second chance like on television where you can take multiple takes.  
This is the youtube video of my whole performance if you skip to 48.22 you will see the fight scene. 
 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqNzZH5dZujRShKuZxtVJzZkgC60uBlzb

The grief scene (where Macduff finds out that his wife and kids are dead):

The struggling part of playing this was making sure it was believable and using my own pain but using it just enough that it doesn't take over and I get too upset. its all about using the correct balance to of thinking about the characters pain and your own to put it into an amazing performance which overall, I believed i was able to accomplice. What also helped with this was watching over people do this performance, and see how they channelled their energy into the scene. 

However overall the character was very challenging for me, because of all the factors above, but I over came this problems as described above. This was my character analysis.