In the end, the Weird Sisters get a hold of exactly what they came for: Brains — Macbeth’s, and maybe ours too.

Banquo is noble and loyal to King Duncan and, unlike Macbeth, does not contemplate acting on the Witches’ predictions. In Act 3, scene 1, however, he does seem to have ambitious thoughts.

The witches are thus active instruments in the fate that befalls Macbeth, making him somewhat more of a puppet of their otherworldly mischief than a closer reading of the text might bear out.

Courtney Stewart played one of the witches in Queensland Theatre’s Macbeth – a big, old-school production with a largely Anglo cast and an imported British director, Michael Attenborough. And it got ...

Macbeth story When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing ...