King James I was on the throne when Shakespeare wrote Macbeth. He was Scottish, so perhaps Shakespeare wrote a play about Scottish kings to please him. Three witches meet on the heath and hatch a ...

However on a desolate heath on the way to King Duncan's camp they come across three strange creatures - the 'Weird Sisters', or Witches. The Sisters seem to know exactly who Macbeth and Banquo are.

The witches on the heath greet him as Thane of Glamis ... for the destruction the Macbeths have wrought upon themselves. The order of Macbeth’s mind begins to break down the moment he murders ...

The 54-year-old Eccleston delivers Macbeth ... two hours upon the stage. Findlay also deserves credit for adding an irreverent final twist to Shakespeare’s text, bringing the witches back ...

the witches are played by young girls carrying dolls — although whatever trick it is that makes children in horrors so profoundly creepy, the RSC has missed it. There are two moments in Macbeth ...

Three judges yesterday [January 21] cleared a man of a witchcraft conviction and said that on the evidence they would have done the same for the three witches in Macbeth. The man, Seychelles ...

Let’s borrow from Hamlet to describe this lamentable Macbeth, the second dismal account ... the premise of having a child – presents the witches as young girls in polka-dot onesies, hugging ...

But for viewers who may be unfamiliar with the 64-year-old Hunter’s long and storied stage career, her performance as the witches — who foretell Macbeth’s bloody rise and fall in a series of ...

In fact, the stars of this "Macbeth" are the supernatural creatures whose presence dominates -- even overshadows -- all the mortals in a throbbing parallel universe of witches, Hecate the Queen ...

Matthew Springett plays Macbeth and Christopher Finn is Lady Macbeth ... home of Shakespeare’s eldest daughter in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since May, Gloucestershire’s acclaimed Festival Players ...