A Tryal of Witches

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Tallulah Brown

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English

Methuen Drama
10 April 2025

Plays & playscripts; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Witchcraft

Series: Modern Plays

You really think I’d be here with you in the mud, the cold and the wet if I had proper magic?

East Anglia, 1645. A hot and stifling

summer. The air is thick with paranoia and

superstition. Matthew Hopkins, the self-appointed Witchfinder General, travels

from village to village telling all who will

listen about the power of the devil and the

prevalence of witches.

The villagers have always gone to wise

woman Anne Alderman for help in illness

and childbirth. She helps Mary conceive and

the alewife Rose goes to her to deal with

an unwanted pregnancy. But when a child

accuses Anne of being a witch, the villagers

become wary. The Civil War continues, the

crops fail and then a man drops dead in the

alehouse. A moral panic sets in, everyone

needs somebody to blame.

A Tryal of Witches asks what led to one of

the most shocking witch trials in British

History. The trial in Bury St Edmunds was

the first time women were convicted using

‘spectral evidence’ – the belief that witches

could be in two places at one time.

This edition was published to coincide with

the world premiere at Theatre Royal Bury St

Edmunds, in March 2025. The production

featured original music composed by the

band, TRILLS.

By: Tallulah Brown
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 120g
ISBN: 9781350562295
ISBN 10: 1350562297
Series: Modern Plays
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 10 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tallulah Brown studied Drama and English at the University of Manchester, graduating in 2011. Her first play, Phantasmagoria, won the Audience Choice Award as part of the Manchester-in-Fringe Theatre Awards and later transferred to the Edinburgh Fringe. Talullah Brown was part of the Soho Young Writer's Copmany for two years before being selected for Channel 4's 2014 Screenwriting Scheme. Her play Sea Fret was premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in 2017.

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