In this episode we will finally get to the WITCHES of Shakespeare’s Macbeth!

Because of course, let us not forget it is our Spooky Month Special!

The witches are in fact the very first characters to appear onstage. Act 1, Scene 1, A Desert Place. The trio speak in a different rhythm to everyone else in the play. This allows their vocal performance to sell their otherworldliness. Described by Shakespeare as weyward sisters in the first folio, refer to my excellent description of what the first folio is, in the last episode. These ladies are from the Upside Down. They’re from Bizarro World. They come from a place where evil is good and good is evil. Despite all the evidence I provided in the last episode, I can still legitimately argue these weyward sisters are witches complete with withered in wild attire and facial hair! 

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