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A Tryal of Witches
Saturday 22nd March
A Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds own production written by Tallulah Brown.
East Anglia, 1645, a hot and stifling Summer. The air is thick with paranoia and superstition.
Matthew Hopkins, the self-appointed Witchfinder General travels from village to village telling all who will listen about the power of the devil and the prevalence of witches.
As the bloody battles of the civil war draw ever closer, the crops fail and a man drops dead in the alehouse.
A moral panic sets in, they need someone to blame.
Far from being a trial of witches, this was a trial of women.
The play asks what led to one of the most shocking witch trials in British history. The trial in Bury St Edmunds was the first time women were convicted using ‘spectral evidence’ – the belief that witches could be in two places at one time.
A new play with original music composed by the band, TRILLS.
Access Performances:
Relaxed performance: Tues 11 March, 7:30pm
Captioned performance: Sat 15 March, 2pm
BSL Interpreted performance: Tues 18 March, 7:30pm
Audio Described performance: Thurs 20 March, 7:30pm
Touch Tour (for those with visual impairments): Thurs 20 March, 7:30pm
Brown wisely leaves us to draw our own parallels, bucking a trend for overly didactic historical drama that lurches into the modern day.
One of the things that regional theatre does really well is uncovering startling true stories from local communities, and then giving them new life, new potency, by putting them on stage in a form which modern audiences can appreciate.
The all-female cast is superb throughout, bringing this horrific period of paranoia and superstition back to life four centuries later.
Rachel Heaton
Sarah and Judge Godbold
Emily Hindle
Rose and Matthew Hopkins
Shaniya Hira
Mary, John Stearne and Sir Matthew Hale
Claire Storey
Anne Alderman
Lucy Tuck
Reverend John and Nathaniel
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