AURORA - Shakespeare's words have lived in the hearts of many for more than 400 years. His works have been written and rewritten in a vast array of plays and movies for generations to enjoy.

On Sunday, The Geriactors, a retired acting troupe from the Rochester area, performed their version of Shakespeare in an original play, "Shakespeare Over Easy or Where there's a Will there's our way," at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora.

In one performance titled, "The Macbeth Murder Mystery," written by James Thurber, two women, Ellen Herzman and Ginni Pierce, found themselves having a heated discussion of who the killer may be in Shakespeare's, Macbeth.�

"I have read that people have never even figured out Hamlet," Pierce said during her performance.

As the performance went on, the women came to the conclusion that it must have been Mrs. Macbeth's father who was the killer because he wanted a better life for his daughter.

"But the killer cannot only make one appearance in the story," Pierce contested.

Yet as Herzman concluded, Pierce came to agree that the mysterious father may have indeed been the killer and appeared in the story again as an unknown old man.

Leaning in close to Pierce, Herzman told her that now that the murder mystery of Macbeth is solved, she will now go on to solve the Hamlet mystery.

"Who do you suspect," Pierce asked of Herzman?

"Everyone," she said.

Herzman is a teacher at SUNY Geneseo. Pierce has been actively involved in theater for more than 40 years.

In addition to Pierce and Herzman, other performances included, "Brush up your Shakespeare," written by Cole Porter and performed by Greg Byrne, of Fairport, and Roger Gans, of Rush.

"Romeo and Juliet according to Andy Griffith," was performed by Jim Scholes of Geneseo, along with Byrne and Gans.