ELIZABETH FREESTONE   

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Plays by Elizabeth Freestone

ELIZABETH FREESTONE

Here Lies Mary Spindler

1st Produced:

Suffolk's Latitude Festival

2009

Company:

Royal Shakespeare Company

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Genre:

Play/Drama

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Female

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Notes:

Created by director Elizabeth Freestone, RSC Movement Director Struan Leslie, playwright Phil Porter, sound designer Adrienne Quartly, designer Tom Scutt and the Suffolk Trial Society

Synopsis:

Through its course three women are abused in a number of horrific ways: tortured, branded, searched all over their bodies for the extra "teats" from which it was believed their familiars hid and suckled. Of course we cannot help thinking of The Crucible when it comes to the interrogations themselves, as Hopkins uses everything the women say as proof of their guilt - even the fact of Laura Elphinstone's heartbreakingly vulnerable young woman being afraid to look him in the face. But the piece powerfully brings out the superstitions of the period, partly driven by the desperate mortality rate: witchcraft could be "proved" simply by the fact that children had died in a woman's proximity. It also gives a sense of the fear of the feminine: one of the women, giving a false confession, speaks of the devil's familiars nibbling and sucking her in secret places, to the disgust of the righteous clergyman.
- Corinne Salisbury, British Theatre Guide

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