The Witch of Edmonton: Staged Reading

Get ready for Witch with a reading of the source text! 

 

The Witch of Edmonton is an English Jacobean play, written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621. Subversive in its own time, this play is centered two plots: the tale of Elizabeth Sawyer, a woman shunned and mistreated by her neighbors who sides with the devil to seek her revenge, and the story of a young man who secretly marries twice in an attempt to seek his fortune. This famed play about witchcraft and bigamy is the inspiration for Jen Silverman's Witch.

 

Join 19 of York University's acting students as they perform a lightly staged reading of this text, cut down and adapted from the original by Soulpepper Artistic Director Paolo Santalucia and directed by Soulpepper Academy graduate Charlotte Dennis.