See it if You want to watch actors who look like real people play characters in a very believable story.
Don't see it if You only like Disney adaptations.
See it if I loved Diedra O'Connell's performance. She truly inhabited Becky Nurse especially as the ancestor. I'm not a fan of playwrite but liked it
Don't see it if If you need a linear plot line don't go. It jumps back and forth to the Salem witch trials.
See it if You enjoy great writing & performance, If you relate to being punished for honesty and directness. Or if Arthur Miller always creeped u out
Don't see it if You prefer obiedent "well behaved" women Read more
See it if you are interested in the Salem witch trials, or the type of crystal loving, patchouli wearing 'healers' you'll find in Asheville
Don't see it if you are triggered by opioid abuse, or if you can't follow what is supposedly real and what is taking place in Becky's mind
See it if you want a pretty good show that is elevated to terrific by the amazing Deirdre O'Connell.She is worth seeing in anything.This show is good.
Don't see it if Play was a bit dull.It sort of dragged.But O'Connell is so good that I didn't care about the material!
See it if Looking for something completely different and a tad bizarre.
Don't see it if You want a conventional or predictable theater experience.
See it if You want a fresh take on the Crucible and witch trials. Creative, spiced with intellectual humor. Very entertaining.
Don't see it if You are not open to new concepts in theater. Show was bit weird but then again it’s a show about witches.
See it if You like shows about dealing with history and exploring the hardships of life in the modern day.
Don't see it if You don’t like shows centered around women.
"The play spends two hours dancing around a vaguely defined feminist message...It hasn’t figured out the spell that will bring real magic to the stage."
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"3/5 Stars. Sarah Ruhl seems to be interested in the ways in which historical hysteria gets echoed in today's highly polarized America, but some of her parallels...are more convincing than others...Although director Rebecca Taichman elicits solid performances from most of the actors, she doesn’t manage to smooth over the tonal shifts...Even so, Deirdre O'Connell works wonders."
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"This [point] serves as a reminder that neither historical nor current witch hunts were ever about the supernatural, but about the very natural experience of being a woman with power."
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"I couldn't help thinking about the art of meme creation as I watched Sarah Ruhl's 'Becky Nurse of Salem'...It's clear that Becky Nurse isn't driven by the objectives of its characters, but the motives of its author."
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Becky's problems are many and varied, including some notably poor personal choices, and her story is an uneasy mélange of comic, dramatic, and magical elements spiked with textual exegesis and feminist commentary. Its plot is less than persuasive, its comedy surprisingly mild, and its ideas often too obviously imposed on the action. It's a witches' brew that probably could have stood a little more time bubbling in the cauldron.
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"The off-the-wall plot twists notwithstanding, the adventures of Becky Nurse provide us with a delightfully offbeat evening of theater in the company of some first-rate actors. And that's witchcraft of the finest sort."
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"Too bad the author hasn’t used more of her own first-rate playwrighting witchery for this Arthur Miller-like political indictment."
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"O’Connell effortlessly navigates Becky’s highs and lows, not to mention forays into basic witchcraft. She is, in a word, spellbinding."
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