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Shakespeare plays a WITCH on stage

A view of the stage, with a sign telling us that we are in the witches' hut; lighted candles indicate that it is night. There is a large cauldron bubbling over a fire on the left, and a skull on a stool at the back. Shakespeare is centre-stage, performing as a witch dressed in ragged clothing. Close behind him are two other witches, similarly attired, who dance about looking nefarious

ALL Round about the cauldron go,
In the poisoned entrails throw:

3rd WITCH Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf;
Witch's mummy; throat and guts
of the fearsome salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock, digged in the dark ...

2nd WITCH By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes ...

Macbeth, Act 4 Scene 1