"The play spends two hours dancing around a vaguely defined feminist message...It hasn’t figured out the spell that will bring real magic to the stage."
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"3/5 Stars. Sarah Ruhl seems to be interested in the ways in which historical hysteria gets echoed in today's highly polarized America, but some of her parallels...are more convincing than others...Although director Rebecca Taichman elicits solid performances from most of the actors, she doesn’t manage to smooth over the tonal shifts...Even so, Deirdre O'Connell works wonders."
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"This [point] serves as a reminder that neither historical nor current witch hunts were ever about the supernatural, but about the very natural experience of being a woman with power."
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"I couldn't help thinking about the art of meme creation as I watched Sarah Ruhl's 'Becky Nurse of Salem'...It's clear that Becky Nurse isn't driven by the objectives of its characters, but the motives of its author."
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Becky's problems are many and varied, including some notably poor personal choices, and her story is an uneasy mélange of comic, dramatic, and magical elements spiked with textual exegesis and feminist commentary. Its plot is less than persuasive, its comedy surprisingly mild, and its ideas often too obviously imposed on the action. It's a witches' brew that probably could have stood a little more time bubbling in the cauldron.
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"The off-the-wall plot twists notwithstanding, the adventures of Becky Nurse provide us with a delightfully offbeat evening of theater in the company of some first-rate actors. And that's witchcraft of the finest sort."
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"Too bad the author hasn’t used more of her own first-rate playwrighting witchery for this Arthur Miller-like political indictment."
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"O’Connell effortlessly navigates Becky’s highs and lows, not to mention forays into basic witchcraft. She is, in a word, spellbinding."
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