It’s a comedy about the witch hunts. That’s right. 

This “Monty Python Meets The Crucible” is a fast-paced, four-person comedy that asks the question: What if real witches dropped in on the witch hunts? 

Set in the 1600s in the town of Newtown, the village’s chapter of The Pricks of Puritanical Piety Guild and Social Club are setting record numbers of convictions. Townswoman Obediently Snead ends up in the hot seat when she refuses the head witch hunter John Thomas’s offer of marriage. Fortunately, the ghost of Obediently Snead’s ancestor is hanging around, and she knows just who to call: The real witches. Summoned through time and space, Mildred, Agnes and Suds arrive to even the odds and show injustice a thing or two. 

Born in New England where the American witch hunts began, raised on Off-Off Broadway in New York City, and now making its Edinburgh Fringe debut, Witches is a reminder of our shared history and the consequences of pseudoscience and mass hysteria.