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EDFEST: 2025 Salem Witch Trial

  • The Tank 312 W 36th St New York, NY, 10018 United States (map)

2025 Salem Witch Trial
Sunday, July 20

Based on the true story of a tarot-reading lesbian forced from her home by Christian neighbours 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. Reinterpreting Biblical women’s stories and exposing the ongoing persecution of the divine feminine, all while trying not to get burned at the stake.

Part of EdFest, a festival of NYC Edinburgh Fringe previews produced by Jess Ducey, with technical director Jen Leno. Catch this and 11 other shows before they head to Scotland.

Earlier Event: July 20
EDFEST: A Drag Is Born
Later Event: July 20
EDFEST: Shell