Tituba
- Short Play, Drama, 17th Century
- 1F
- ISBN: 9781848427693
A one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.
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Description
- Short Play
- Drama
- Time Period: 17th Century
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.
It was first performed at Hampstead Theatre, London, in November 2016, as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival produced by Sphinx Theatre, demonstrating the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage.
The play is also available in Women Centre Stage, a collection of eight short plays selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre. All the plays included in this volume offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. Other writers included in the collection include Timberlake Wertenbaker, Georgia Christou and April De Angelis.
Premiere Production:
Hampstead Theatre, London, 2016.
Characters
- Casting: 1F
- Casting Attributes: Plays for one performer, Good role(s) for female performers, All Female
