A Tryal of Witches

A Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds own production written by Tallulah Brown.

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.
As the bloody battles of the civil war draw ever closer, the crops fail and a man drops dead in the alehouse.
A moral panic sets in, they need someone to blame.
Far from being a trial of witches, this was a trial of women.

The play 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.
A new play with original music composed by the band, TRILLS.