Becky Nurse of Salem by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Kathy Blandin.
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 hoping to 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. Becky Nurse of Salem is a comic look at how times have changed, or not, for women in America.
Thursday-Saturday, February 18-20, 2027, at 7:30 PM and Sunday, February 21, 2027, at 2:00 PM in the Swanson Black Box Theater.