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Becky Nurse of Salem
Becky Nurse of Salem | Sarah Ruhl
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Out of work and out of love, Becky Nurse is an ordinary but strong-willed grandmother just trying to get by in post-Obama America. She's also the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Rebecca Nurse, who was infamously executed for witchcraft in 1692 - but things have changed for women since then, haven't they? Desperate to raise her troubled teenaged granddaughter right, and also hook up with an old flame, Becky visits a local witch for help. But those spells and potions don't work out exactly as planned.
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Even the stage directions slay me! You know I can't resist the move to wax poetic about my favorite art form. #SeeMoreTheatre

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In last few years, a number of new plays have been written that explore, critique, or investigate Arthur Miller's classic. One of them, John Proctor is the Villain, will have a Broadway run this spring so I figured it was a good time to revisit them as a series of sorts. Each retelling is great in its own way, but the tagged book by the unmatched Sarah Ruhl is the true stunner- surprising, heartbreaking, complex, and defiant.

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