LB03 Salem 1692

CREDITS

Written by Lillian Cohen-Moore and Logan Bonner

Edited by Steve Segedy

Salem 1692 was Playset of the Month, May 2012.

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“When you play, play hard.” - Theodore Roosevelt

THE SCORE

Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches, Lately Executed in New-England

After the New Year dawned on 1692, strange afflictions have beset many of the young girls in Salem. Thought to be the precocious nonsense of children, they now suffer episodes of violence and terrifying abuse at the hands of unseen forces. Their forbidden games have brought this on-slaught, and they have learned them at the hands of their very neighbors and servants.

Inevitable accusations have now followed. As young as five to as old as eighty, no resident of Salem Village or the surrounding townships, good Christians or no, old or young, are safe from the witch hunt.

1692 will be a year of misery and death for all of Salem Village.

Truly, spells and stories are not simple children’s games.

MOVIE NIGHT

The Crucible, The Village, Luther, Day of Wrath

relationships...

1 Family

1 Siblings

2 Aunt/uncle and niece/nephew

3 Married into same family

4 Cousins

5 Colonist and relative from England

6 Parent and child

2 In the Court

1 Grand jurors

2 Defender and accused

3 Sheriff and delinquent

4 Accuser and accused

5 Cellmates

6 Chief Justice and prosecutor

3 Faith

1 Minister and parishioner

2 Fake witch and “real” witch

3 Believer and skeptic

4 Witch hunters

5 Deacons

6 Secret catholic and close friend

...in colonial salem

4 Wedlock and Sin

1 Goodman and goodwife

2 Repressed lust

3 Unrequited affection

4 Adulterers

5 Parents of illegitimate child

6 Widows/widowers

5 Society

1 Landowners

2 Teacher and student

3 Master and slave

4 Doctor and patient

5 Fallen women

6 Members of the feuding Putnam and Porter families

6 History

1 Former minister of Salem and his last tie to the town

2 Current and former owners of an estate

3XKiller and witness

4 Experimented with witchcraft as children

5 Converts to the Puritan faith

6 Grew up together in England

1 To clear your name

1 …by proving you’re not a witch

2 …and tarnish someone else’s

3 …using blackmail

4 ...no matter the price

5 ...by betraying your own blood

6 ...in front of the grand jury

2 To be a Good Christian

1 ...by rooting out witchcraft

2 ...by punishing displays of pride

3 ...by making an example

4 ...by beating the Devil out of someone

5 ...by steadfastly resisting this temptation

6 ...by converting the heathens

3 To be a Good Steward

1 ...by passing on your earthly possessions to your children

2 ...by arranging a proper marriage

3 ...by upholding tradition

4 ...by preserving Salem Village

5 ...by protecting the weak

6 ...by serving authority

NEEDS...

4 To get the Truth

1 ...no matter how much pain you cause

2 ...from a loved one

3 ...even if it kills them

4 ...by exposing your own secrets

5 ...to preserve another’s honor

6 ...about a rival

5 To Raise your Station

1 ...by stealing another’s property

2 ...above a friend’s

3 ...by bearing false witness

4 ...to benefit your family

5 ...by destroying another’s reputation

6 ...by marrying for money

6 To Succumb to the Devil

1 ...by corrupting the youth

2 ...by practicing witchcraft

3 ...by giving in to lust

4 ...by perverting Church doctrine

5 ...by aiding heretics

6 ...by betraying loved ones

...IN Colonial Salem

1 In Salem Town

1 Meeting house

2 Court house

3 Charter Street cemetery

4 Town common

5 Prison

6 Town Bridge

2 Elsewhere in Salem Town

1 Gedney’s “Ship Tavern”

2 Ingersoll’s ordinary, a place for food and lodging

3 Training field

4 Gallows Hill

5 Reverend’s parsonage

6 Old meeting house

3 Outskirts

1 Witch Hill

2 The “Seven Men’s Bounds” tree

3 The ferry

4 Jeggle’s Island

5 Orchard Farm

6 The docks

LOCATIONS...

4 Forbidden Places

1 Slave’s quarters

2 The woods

3 Sealed well

4 Barn loft where that boy died

5 A locked shed

6 Deserted Indian camp

5 Places of Toil

1 Stables

2 Farm with dead crops

3 Fishing boat

4 Iron works in Andover

5 Dodge’s Grist Mill

6 Sailing vessel, leaving soon

6 The World Beyond

1 Boston

2 Ipswich

3 On the ship from England

4 London

5 Plymouth Colony

6 New Amsterdam

...IN Colonial Salem

1 Blasphemous Articles

1 ”Voodoo” poppet

2 Witch’s ointment

3 Tattered grimoire

4 Divining rod

5 Gilded Catholic crucifix

6 Rosary

2 Court

1 Chief Justice’s seal

2 Witch cake

3 A board and 2 tons of heavy stones

4 Testimony of the afflicted

5 Court clerk’s tools

6 Heavy manacles

3 Bawdy Articles

1 Steamy letters

2 Canteen of rum

3 Women’s underclothes

4 Samuel Pepys’ copy of the idle roguish book, L’escholle de filles

5 Silk imitation of a lady’s “marigold”

6 Wooden dildo

OBJECTS...

4 Shitte with Secrets

1 Lectern with a hidden compartment

2 Marionette fashioned to appear as an apparition

3 Powdered wig with bloodstains inside

4 Hidden love poem

5 Buried box

6 Diary page admitting a child’s father was an Indian

5 Symbols of Status

1 Deed to a large estate

2 Fine wool cloak

3 Personal library

4 Cloak clasp from the village beauty

5 Calfskin gloves with strange markings

6 Clay pipe with a peculiar odor

6 Weapons

1 Scythe

2 Musket

3 Hangman’s noose

4 Fire iron

5 Axe

6 Sergeant’s halberd

...IN Colonial Salem

A unhallowed

INSTA-setup

Relationships in colonial Salem

For three players…

* Family: Parent and child

* In the Court: Accuser and accused

* Society: Members of the feuding Putnam and Porter families

For four players, add…

* Faith: Minister and parishioner

For five players, add…

* Wedlock and Sin: Repressed lust

Needs in colonial Salem

For three players…

* To get the truth: …even if it kills them

For four or five players, add…

* To succumb to the devil: …by corrupting the youth

LOCATIONS in colonial Salem

For three or four players…

* Elsewhere in Salem Town: Reverend’s parsonage

For five players, add…

* Forbidden Places: The woods

OBJECTS in colonial Salem

For three, four or five players…

* A board with 2 tons of heavy stones