"2025 Salem Witch Trial" - the story of a queer witch & a Christian cult
Schedule
Fri, 10 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 pm to Fri, 24 Oct, 2025 at 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Witchery | Salem, MA
About this Event
Join us at The Witchery for an intimate night featuring an unbelievable story of a modern day witch trial. 2025 Salem Witch Trial is a darkly comedic solo show written and performed by Telly-Award winning artist Gretchen Wylder about her harrowing lived experience.
Based on the true story of a tarot-reading lesbian forced from her home by Christian neighbors likely in a cult, Gretchen Wylder's darkly comedic one-woman show explores witches as healers, the patriarchal systems that burned them, and the modern dangers of organised religion. Living a double life – reading tarot in Salem while living in a creepy cottage town run by zealots – her personal horror show becomes a fierce reclamation of spirituality. Wylder reinterprets Biblical women’s stories and exposes the ongoing persecution of the divine feminine, all while trying not to get burned at the stake.
Fresh off an award-winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Spookies Award for “Best Solo Show” at Edinburgh Fringe ‘25), Gretchen is bringing the heat back to where the witch trials all started 333 years ago in 1692, and where modern day witch trials are still happening in 2025... Salem, Massachusetts.
Directed by Ryan Cunningham
Doors open at 7:45, Show starts at 8pm
Runtime: 1 hour
More info at www.gretchenwylder.com/salemwitchtrials
IG @salemwitchshow, @gretchenwylder
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Where is it happening?
The Witchery, 86 Wharf Street, Salem, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 28.52
