Becky Nurse of Salem **1/2
By: Samuel L. Leiter December 16, 2022: In an afterword appended to her script for Becky Nurse of Salem, playwright Sarah Ruhl (In the Next Room, or the vibrator play), whose unsatisfying dramedy about the Salem witch trials is now playing at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, she explains the inspiration that led her to write the play. This was a compound of things, including the chants of "Lock her up" that soiled t…