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Something Wicked this Way Comes - Shakespeare's Villains and Villainesses

"In a desert place, three mysterious women conjure up Shakespeare's most infamous villains andvillainesses, empowering them to commit their heinous crimes.

Iago from Othello, the wicked Queen from Cymbeline, Edmund, Goneril and Regan from King Lear, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Tamora of the Goths, the Macbeths, the cunning Shylock from The Merchant of Venice and Angelo from Measure for Measure are brought together to illustrate the nature of their Natures! This dark script consists of Shakespeare's original text from his plays and sonnets, approaching the question of what creates evil in the human mind.

The sinister hostesses of the drama are the wonderful mistresses of ceremonies, the three weird sisters from Macbeth, who invoke the most evil of Shakespearean personae's and their unsuspecting victims."

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