Becky Nurse of Salem (TCG Edition)

A wry, innovative reckoning with the legacy of the Salem witch trials from one of Americas foremost playwrights.Becky Nurse is an outspoken, sharp-witted tour guide at the Salem Museum of Witchcraft whos just trying to get by in post-Obama America. Shes also the descendant of Rebecca Nurse, who was infamously executed for witchcraft in 1692but things have changed for women since thenhavent they? After losing her job for calling outThe Cruciblein 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 familys legacy and finding her voice in the lock her up era.Becky Nurse of Salemreceived 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.