In the British theatre it is bad luck to say "Macbeth". It is normally replaced by "the Scottish play".
Theater people believe it is bad luck. They call MacBeth the "Scottish play."
Apparently it's a superstition that it will bring bad luck to the theatre. Personally I think that it isn't true. I was reading Macbeth and talking about it at my rehearsal for a play and it went swimmingly.
For the same reason you can't say the name of that Scottish play, I guess!
Either way is correct.
Although many actors believe that it is bad luck to say good luck in the theatre, it is not entirely proven that this might be real or not. However, it's said to be that Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, was known to be "cursed" and therefore, most of them seem to be in the clear... avoiding lines of the play that include scenes of him as well as the name of Macbeth itself before continuing to proceed or go on stage.With that said, this is the same with the statement "it is bad luck to say good luck in the theatre". No-one really knows if this can mess up the performance, but to stay safe, most actors just go with it and say "break a leg" instead.
Tradition says, saying "Macbeth" in a theater will give bad luck to all the actors and the play itself. In a theater.
Theater people believe it is bad luck. They call MacBeth the "Scottish play."
When something bad happens we say "What bad luck!"We do not say "What a bad luck!" because that is not correct in normal English usage.
Today, in theater terms it means, "Good Luck." But it is said because people used to say that there were bad spirits in the theater so people would say "Break a Leg" so the spirits would do the opposite thing. If someone said "Good Luck" it supposedly would be bad because the spirits, again, would do the opposite.
no because they were known as bad luck
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Macbeth. By the way, professional actors have certain superstitions, and one of them is that it is bad luck to say "Macbeth" in a theater. They refer to it as "The Scottish Play".
The acting profession is very superstitious. True, to say 'good luck' to someone just going on stage is bad luck. Instead acting people say 'break a leg' its code for 'good luck' but the bad spirits don't know that.
Apparently it's a superstition that it will bring bad luck to the theatre. Personally I think that it isn't true. I was reading Macbeth and talking about it at my rehearsal for a play and it went swimmingly.
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my mom and dad say "yes it is bad luck"
For the same reason you can't say the name of that Scottish play, I guess!