Live On Stage

A staged reading of Witch by Jen Silverman
by the Actors Reading Collective

Featuring James Carpenter, Luisa Sermol, and Jomar Tagatac.

A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a “witch” and cast out by the town, but her soul is not so readily bought. As the devil returns to convince her – and then returns again – unexpected passions flare, alliances are formed, and the village is forever changed.
An inventive retelling of a Jacobean drama, this sharp, subversive fable debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by.

The Actors Reading Collective is a group of Bay Area actors who came together during the pandemic as a reaction to that sudden silencing of our voices and our mutual need to tell stories, our mutual love of words, of theater, and our need to gather and celebrate each other and the craft we love.