Becky Nurse of Salem
Written by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Rebecca Taichman
Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse
December 31, 2022
Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.

Sarah Ruhl’s latest play is about a descendant of a tried and convicted American witch.  The play was inspired by the rage that the playwright Ms. Ruhl felt after seeing a production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and how it distorted the motivation of the Salem Withc Trials to make them about young women’s desire for an older man.   – ie – – Abigail was 17 in the play but in real life she was 11.  That changes everything.