We are the witches, and we are coming,” say the two women towering above the stage. But it is the present under urgent consideration in this collaboration by Rachel Mars and Nat Tarrab, the winner of this year’s Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award, which has been made with an all-female team. Because theatre is programmed so far in advance, it is unusual to see a show that responds so directly to the moment. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Witch hunt … Lesley Ewen, Kailing Fu, Rachel Mars and Nat Tarrab in Roller. In between, the show has echoes of Naomi Alderman’s book The Power as it examines how women might respond to millennia of oppression.

Source: The Guardian November 26, 2017 13:30 UTC