The Manningtree Witches review – Ava Pickett’s gripping follow-up to Tudor hit 1536

Mercury theatre, Colchester The targets of the infamous 17th-century ‘witchfinder general’ narrate a powerful play based on AK Blakemore’s novel‘It does not matter what is true,” a teenager tells us after giving a testimony of witchcraft against a group of women including her own...