Rebecca Nurse is a minor character in The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s harrowing dramatization of the witch-hunt hysteria which gripped colonial America. But she is the center of Becky Nurse of Salem, Sarah Ruhl’s jagged new play set in contemporary times with a brief trip into the past. Well, not the Rebecca of Miller’s play, but an imagined descendent beset with just about every possible calamity associated with 21st century working-class society.
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