“The Last Night” at Hole in the Wall Theater Explores Connecticut Witchcraft Executions

New Britain’s Hole in the Wall Theater will host, “The Last Night”, a play, “that explores not only the facts of the Hartford Witchcraft Panic, but the hearts and souls of two women accused and hanged,” the Theater says.

The Theater says that the play, “was originally commissioned by the Stanley-Whitman House in Farmington in 2022 in honor of the Mary Barnes Society,” and, “was written and performed by Debra Walsh and Virginia Wolf as a reading,” at the Stanley-Whitman House in 2023.

The Theater says that the play,

imagines Mary Barnes and Rebecca Greensmith, two real women convicted of witchcraft in 17th century Connecticut, jailed together the night before their hanging. Historical accuracy, combined with informed conjecture where there were no historical records to guide us, led to a script that explores not only the facts of the Hartford Witchcraft Panic, but the hearts and souls of two women accused and hanged.

After the reading, “won a Certificate of Merit from the Connecticut League of History Organizations,” the Theater says, “Herstory Theater decided the piece should be more fully developed into a fully staged performance.” Walsh and Wolf are to perform the stage presentation at the Hole in the Wall Theater.

The play is to be performed at the Hole in the Wall Theater at 116 Main Street on January 24, 2024 at 8:00pm, the Theater says, adding, “Tickets via the QR code or at www.herstorytickets.com.”

“Runtime 45 minutes,” the Theater says, adding, “talkback directly after the show.”