Vinegar Tom
By: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: First produced at Humberside Theatre, Hull in 1976, 'Vinegar Tom' is a play about witches, but none of the characters portrayed is a witch; it is a play that does not talk about hysteria, evil or demonic possession but about poverty, humiliation and prejudice, and the view which the women accused of witchcraft have of themselves.
Notes: Originally published: in print in Plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 1985.