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Twisted, withered women in theatre (3,5,7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

the weird sisters

'theatre' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'twisted withered women' is the wordplay.
'twisted' is an anagram indicator.
'women' becomes 'sisters' (sister is a kind of woman**).
'withered' anagrammed gives 'theweird'.
'theweird'+'sisters'='THE WEIRD SISTERS'

'in' acts as a link.

(Another definition for the weird sisters that I've seen is " Scandinavian goddesses".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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