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The weird sisters who hail him with prophecies of his future greatness don’t instruct him on what he must do to attain the throne.

For me, it was more about if those weird sisters were around, what would they be doing?

The weird sisters, incarnated in the mesmerizing, smoky-voiced performance art of Kathryn Hunter, seem as much a fact of the natural world as the crows circling the gunmetal sky.

Those familiar with “Macbeth” will instantly recognize the play’s three witches, embodied here by the great Kathryn Hunter as Shakespeare’s weird sisters rolled into a startling, unsettling, utterly glorious one-woman chorus.

More than that, as the prophetic “weird sisters” of “Macbeth” make clear, she has the power to drive the plot.