17th Century WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT

 VINEGAR TOM: A 1976 play by Caryl Churchill. As well as the added anachronism of the actors, who performed the songs in modern dress, despite the fact that the play was set in the 17th century. This play is about women's  Rights Act in 1970 and explored the thought that women were treated unequally to men in England, both at the time in which the play takes place, and the time in which the play was written.

PLOT: This play is about a girl named Alice who is in her twenties in a small village she with her mother is accused of Witchcraft. Witches back than were old poor single cunning or skilled to help temper social unrest. Alice is sexually discriminated because she had sexual intercourse without marriage and if your not married than you will get "prostitute" shamed and will be called and known as a witch 

The opening of the play shows a woman who is in her early 20s and a character named, simply, Man. Rather than individualizing the character 'Man' by giving him a name, Churchill uses a shorthand, story-telling technique, as used by Brecht, in order to show a 'type'  to the audience. By 'distancing' the character in this way, the audience is more likely to think about the situation or issue rather than become over-absorbed in who the characters are. 

CARYL CHURCHILL

BORN: 3rd September 1938

OCCUPATION: playwright

NATIONALITY: British

Carly was born in London England after the second world war she and her family emigrated to Montreal Quebec Canada where she attended Trafalgar school for girls. She returned to England to attend universality in 1956 and graduated in 1960  While raising a family in the 1960s and 1970s, Churchill began to write short radio dramas for BBC Radio. These included The Ants (1962), Not, Not, Not, Not Enough Oxygen (1971), and Schreiber's Nervous Illness (1972). She also wrote television plays for the BBC, including The After-Dinner Joke (1978) and Crimes (1982). These, as well as some of her radio plays, have been adapted for the stage. She married barrister David Harter in 1961 they have 3 sons that live in Hackney East London.

WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT / 17 CENTURY:

Many faced capital punishment if they're a witch, the punishment for this is either burning or hanging or beheaded if a woman was being accused of a witch the higher ups will tie her and throw her in the lake, if she drowned she is not a witch but if she was floating she is a witch but either way she still dies.

At least 513 witches were put on trial between 1560 and 1700 and only 112 were executed 

STANISLAVSKI ACTING TECHNIGUE

Stanislavski was born in 1863 and his intention is to allow actors to create believable characters and help them to properly put them selves in the place of a character. The Actors would have the ability to how emotion's while acting but this depends on the play.