'A woman’s children die in infancy. A farmer’s estates are eaten away by bad weather, bad luck and the government parcelling out his land to migrants. A servant is whipped, and a boy is forced to keep his sexuality a secret. A wife discovers that her husband doesn’t love her anymore. Welcome to Salem, a town seething with resentment, fear and grief – a community that’s just about to be shattered by the blood and smoke of the witch trials. Abigail Williams is a girl with a fire inside her, and all it will take to set off the explosion is a single spark. Then the man she was in love with stands up before the town and calls her a whore – sparking a vicious, public fight for dominance that leaves destruction in its wake.'
Source: NIDA.
Produced at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), 7-14 June 2017.
Director: Madeleine Humphreys.
Featuring NIDA second year Acting and final year Costume, Properties and Objects, Staging, Technical Theatre and Stage Management students, with students of the MFA in Design for Performance.
