Drawing from centuries of witch folklore and the lived experiences of women and gender-diverse people today, the devised work Witches explores the ways people have been feared, controlled, judged, and punished for stepping outside the boundaries placed around them.
Through horror, ritual, movement, video, shadow, sound, visual effects, and original text, Witches moves between the world of folklore and the world we recognize now. Along the way, isolated experiences become shared ones, strangers become a community, and shared empathy and connection builds strength in both gentle and loving ways—and in a way that inspires strength. When the hunted find one another, the animal of prey remembers it has teeth, inspiring a transformation more fearsome than its predator.
Created collaboratively by a vast and multifaceted ensemble of performers and writers, Witches is a theatrical exploration of fear, power, survival, the gritty, the dark, and the strange.