‘Come, you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full, Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood…’

Lady Macbeth howls to the spirits of the underworld to make thick her blood & steel her soul ‘gainst murder.

She is one of the many lively dames brought to life in this 55 minute, two-woman play. A perfect introduction for years 7 & 8 and great fun for 9 & 10.

Some of the women dramatised include:

• Titania Queen of the Fairies – under the spell of a love potion, seduces a donkey to her bower!
• Cleopatra torments a poor messenger who brings her news she does not like; Antony’s marriage to another. Talk about shooting the messenger.
• Lady Macbeth invokes the evil spirits & seduces her husband to murder. The original power couple.
• Helena won’t let Demetrius go – literally! She grabs his legs & he drags her through the forest attempting to escape: ‘I’ll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,and leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.’ Tut tut Demetrius, that’s no way to speak to a young woman in love.
• Ophelia, unable to comprehend Hamlet’s violence toward her, slowly loses her mind. Swaddled in rosemary & thyme, she sinks to a watery grave.

‘When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up.’