The twist in this production is that the witches, traditionally seen as devilish, become agents of positive, though bloody change. From the beginning of the play, before the witches appear to Macbeth, the audience is aware that here is a society based on killing. This is the essential wrongness that permeates the play, and the murder of Duncan is a consequence of that deep wrongness. The positive role the witches play in changing the society is portrayed at the end of the play when they are brought back on stage and placed in the circle of Malcolm's new kingdom. The play therefore ends with hope.

For students involved in this production it was both a creative and an educational experience. They spent many hours with lecturers going through their lines to achieve the best possible delivery, in terms of pronunciation and expression. From using the same lines many times in different contexts, they became very familiar with their meaning and form. Toward the end of the rehearsals, they were using their lines, and the lines of others, to joke with one another. They also came to see individual speeches in the context of the whole work, acquiring meaning from many distant parts of the play.