KILL THE MAGISTRATE

KILL THE MAGISTRATE by Abbey Fenbert (MFA 2015)

Directed by Courtney Elkin Mohler

On a moonlit autumn night circa 1600-something, six women gather in the woods of an unnamed New England town to plot the murder of their local magistrate. But as the night wears on, the trees seem determined to deliver messages and strange objects fall from the sky—and the conspirators’ varying reasons for wanting the magistrate dead start to threaten their alliance. This energetic, heightened, time-bending new play asks the age-old question: when you violently overthrow the patriarchy, how do you avoid replacing it with something worse?

Thanks to the support of tireless Boston theater champion Jack Welch, this residency gives Boston University alumni playwrights 30 hours of development time to explore, evolve and experiment with collaborators. The playwright workshops their play-in-progress and shares it in a public reading.

Featuring Kortney Adams, Annika Burley, Eliza Fichter, Sage Gunning, Sarah Newhouse, and Kaili Y. Turner. Stage Manager: Fanni Horvath

When 7:00 pm on Monday, December 4, 2023
Building Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Avenue
Contact Email newplays@bu.edu
Contact Organization Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
Fees Free