A wry, innovative reckoning with the legacy of the Salem witch trials from one of America’s foremost playwrights.
Becky Nurse is an outspoken, sharp-witted tour guide at the Salem Museum of Witchcraft who’s just trying to get by in post-Obama America. She’s also the descendant of Rebecca Nurse, who was infamously executed for witchcraft in 1692—but things have changed for women since then…haven’t they? After losing her job for calling out The Crucible in front of schoolkids, Becky visits a local witch for help. One spell leads to another, and then everything really goes off the rails. A darkly comic play about a woman coming to terms with her family’s legacy and finding her voice in the “lock her up” era.
Becky Nurse of Salem received its world premiere at Berkeley Rep in December 2019, in a production directed by Anne Kauffman. The play will receive its New York premiere at Lincoln Center Theater in the fall of 2022.
A propos de l’auteur
Sarah Ruhl
’s fifteen plays include the Pulitzer Prize finalists
The Clean House
and
In the Next Room (or the vibrator play),
also nominated for a Tony Award. Her awards include a Mac Arthur Fellowship, and her book of essays
100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write
was a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year.
Eurydice,
named one of the 25 best American plays of the past 25 years in 2018 by the
New York Times
, was developed into an opera with music by Matthew Aucoin, and performed at The Metropolitan Opera in 2021. Her most recent book,
Smile: The Story of a Face
, was published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster. Ruhl teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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