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There is talk of witchcraft in the town and the Reverend John Hale arrives with the Malleus Maleficarum to root out evil. The maelstrom of hysteria has Abigail at its centre. Local farmer, John Proctor confronts her. She worked for him until his wife, Elizabeth, threw her out after John confessed to relations with the girl.

She has had her emotions and ways of thinking opened and she sees the hypocrisy all around her. Her control over the other girls will be her weapon to punish Elizabeth and the town as she explores her power to create chaos. Even the good John Proctor. Playwright Arthur Miller had a genuine interest in the actual Salem witch trials and wrote the play to draw the parallels with his own era.

In the program notes, director Damien Ryan goes further to parallel the story with our own global circumstances. Ryan invokes figures like Anwar Ibrahim and Edward Snowdon to support his contention. The experience begins with travel through the small period mansion on the site, passing the gallows and the hay dray on the route there.

Capitalising on the atmosphere of the Royal Botanic Gardens, and the skills of performers whose pleasure in playing Shakespeare al fresco was evident and infectious, that production set the template for much of what Sport for Jove has achieved since. Ryan is the exiled Duke Senior, a double bass-playing figurehead to a merry band of forest-dwellers who, as required, form a yokel orchestra of accordion players, banjo strummers, drummers and piano players.

Playing outdoors is vocally and physically demanding and the cast expends a huge amount of energy in telling the tale. The text is delivered with clarity and care. Fuda is a livewire Celia and very funny as Phebe played here as a uniformed cop.

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