Jermyn Street theatre, LondonSet in the year before the events of The Crucible, the volatile children's games that seed the later hysteria are brilliantly played but the drama is missing We are in Salem a year before the witchcraft trials of 1692. Rumblings of wrongdoing are filtered through children's games, night-time conversations and the gossip or grisly rumour that wafts into the lives of young Betty Parris (Sab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM on January 12, 2024