"Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he dwells by you for safety's sake.” (Proverbs 3:29)
There is a simple motto lying under this musical’s jilting music and the haunting yell of the town crier, aided by a set of movement pieces which admirably avoid The Glitch Theatre’s support pillars: look after your neighbours and your neighbours will look after you. It acts as a heady and reviving spirit as you plunge into the venue just outside of Waterloo.
For The Witch and The Whistleblower, a tale of lost community, soothsayers and a pub landlord, chimes nicely with much that has been lost due to the gentrification of the area. It may be uneven in places but its execution, struggles valiantly through till the end and the script, purpose made for these performances, truly achieves something nearing a supernatural excellence.
It’s 1597 and to be a freethinking woman at this time often meant being outcast, held with suspicion and continually subjugated by the law. The play remarks in song and dance upon how a witch trial could be placed upon a woman with an incredibly scarce amount of evidence. Imagine if homeopaths, social media influencers, fitness instructors, the local tarot card readers on Brighton pier and cat breeders, were reported on BBC News for being burnt at the stake. The protestors would be out indeed. The play reveals the injustice of Witch Hunters and their craft of spinning dubious tales about women supposedly in conspiracy with the devil, during The...
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