That night, the cast was enjoying themselves in specially built areas inside the studio that replicated their homes back in China. It made it so they wouldn't get homesick.
The Soothsayer and Master Croc were discussing the roles they had gotten in the production.
Soothsayer: It seems my experience as a fortune teller is really paying off.
Master Croc: That's easy for you to say, you have one of the most prominent roles in the show. My character only ever shows up at the very end.
Soothsayer: Maybe you'll get that prominent role in another production.
The next day, the rehearsals began.
Lord Shen enters the scene as the title character, his sword swinging as he slaughters his enemies. Then, the witch speaks.
"When the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's lost and won. That will be 'ere the set of sun."
"Upon the heath, I shall meet with Macbeth!"
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air."
Then Shifu makes his entrance as King Duncan.
"What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt, The newest state."
It was at this point that Master Crane enters as Banquo alongside an extra playing a sergeant.
"This is the sergeant, who like a good and hardy soldier fought 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!"
"Say to the king the knowledge of the broil, as thou didst leave it."
The sergeant then speaks.
"Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art.
"The merciless Macdonwald-- Worthy to be a rebel, for to that, the multiplying villanies of nature do swarm upon him--from the western isles."
"Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak: for brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valour's minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave; which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements."