Playing Juliet JoAnne Stewart Wetzel Sky Pony Press New York
For Jillian Scott and Graham who trod the boards
Prologue The actors are at hand and by their show You shall know all that you are like to know Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream There’s a play by William Shakespeare that’s so unlucky no actor ever says the title out loud They call it the Scottish play if they have to refer to it at all For the past few weeks two lines from that play have been running through my head over and over again To make it even worse they’re spoken by a witch By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes
