Week 1: An Introduction

Arriving at London Met for our first day of University, the third year Theatre Studies class had been waiting with much anticipation the revelation of this year's play of choice for our end of year production. The topic would include a vast range of playwrights and their plays from which to choose from. It would entail a lot of diverse research, experimenting with acting techniques to suit certain characters and, in the long run, creating our own unique version of a successful play.

The play that was chosen was "Vinegar Tom", a 1976 feminist play by British playwright Caryl Churchill. The play offers so much material to work with. 17th century witchcraft trials, abusive relationships, the advantages of possessing the necessary power to exclude oneself of being a witch and accuse others is present throughout the play in both men and women. Caryl Churchill has created a diverse range of characters to work with. Once everyone has been assigned a character it was exciting to piece together our adaptation through various different ideas and suggestions.

By creating this blog we hope to show our audience how we took Caryl Churchill's play into our own hands to make it our own. The blog will include weekly chapters of the work that is done in our group to bring the play together for the final production in December. We would like to share our work with you and offer a "behind the scenes" glance of the thoughts and ideas that have created our adaption of Vinegar Tom.

Please refer to week 3 for presentations about Caryl Churchill, Feninism and the Pendleton Witchcraft Trials.