Context:
Staging the witches in a time where there is less belief in the supernatural can present a problem. Different productions have shown them as voodoo practitioners, women ransacking bodies on a battlefield, invisible, or split into many parts. Some directors have justified the visions by including hallucinogenic potions given to Macbeth.
The witches in this production are a strange mixture of real live people and otherworldly outdoor creatures. So they wear black skirts and corsets to give a Victorian shape but also each has an element of a crow as part of her costume: one wears the beak, one the wing and one the tail feathers. |
