Thirteen voices bring to life the thrilling tensions of a Suffolk village in the throes of the witch hunts of the mid-seventeenth century. With the narrative pull of a novel and the vibrancy of a play for voices, Damian Walford Davies’s new poetry collection, Witch (Seren) is a gripping drama of paranoia and violence fed by religious fundamentalism, local grievances, and civil war. Each poem in this authentically imagined tale is a dark spell. The speakers – including Thomas Love the priest (Clive Hicks-Jenkins), the villagers who slowly succumb to suspicion and counter-accusation, the ‘discoverer of witches’ Francis Hurst, and the ‘witch’ herself (Sue Jones-Davies) – conjure a damning parable that chimes with the terror and anxieties of our own haunted age. The performance will also be the occasion of the launch of the collection published by Seren. “As colourfully dramatic in its way as The Crucible . . . an unsettling and original masterpiece, addressing our world as much as 1640s England” (Bernard O’Donoghue) Featuring Jayne Archer, Tiffany Atkinson, John Barnie, Oliver Bevington, Matthew Francis, Jamie Harris, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Sue Jones-Davies, Jemma Lewis King, Richard Marggraf Turley, Jem Poster, Kathryn Stansfield, Damian Walford Davies To book contact Aberystwyth Arts Centre ticket office 01970 62 32 32 or go online www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre |
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