production, directed by Deborah Barton-Moore. The play is set in Salem,

Massachusetts, 1692, where suspicions of witchcraft were floating around

the town air. The play opens with Betty Parris sick in bed, and Reverend

Parris tending to her, and wondering what made her so sick. Soon Abigail

Williams saunters in, and through much probing, Reverend Parris eventually

finds out that she, Tituba, Susanna Walcott and Betty were all involved

together in a secret practicing of witchcraft. Abigail tells of a dance

around a cauldron, in the woods, and says that was all that happened But,

when Reverend Parris tells how he was in the woods at that particular time,

and saw these dances, as well as some other very strange rituals, Abigail

gradually explains what went on, while leaving herself out as the main

visually attractive. As a director, I might provide a long table, or bench,

scenery shifts are made quickly, along with the lighting to create a shift

before (a girl to a tiger), just by the subtle change of various bodily

the way she could change the attributes of her character, as I mentioned

in time as well as place, and it provides for a noticeable variation in the

cues seemed to be right on target, and there never was a moment where the

Overall, the technical aspects were quite good. The majority of the

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