Women, Beware the Devil
9 - 12 Jul
By Lulu Raczka
Director Hannah Eidinow
Movement and Intimacy Director Christina Fulcher
Set Designer Nicolai Hart-Hansen
Costume Designer Rhyannon Richardson
Lighting Designer Mark Dymock
Composer Sonum Batra
You understand then
Why I have to do everything I can
Everything possible
To protect this house
And you understand
Don’t you
What that means for you?
England, 1640. War is brewing. Rumours are flying. A household is in crisis… and the Devil is having some fun. When Elizabeth’s ancestral home comes under threat, she elicits the help of Agnes, a stable girl suspected of witchcraft. But Agnes has dark dreams of her own for this house.
Performed by members of our MA Acting cohort, Women, Beware the Devil is a deadly play of treachery and trickery by The Sunday Times Playwriting Award-winner Lulu Raczka.
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes, including a 15-minute interval
This production features strobe lighting, haze, scenes of a sexual nature, incest, physical and sexual violence, self harm, threat, discrimination, gunshot sound effects and weaponry.