RSC Returns To Latitude Festival, 18th-19th July

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) returns to the Latitude Festival at Henham Park, Suffolk with a chilling new event to be held at the witching hour on Saturday 18 July and at dusk on Sunday 19 July.

Specially commissioned by the RSC, Here Lies Mary Spindler has been created by director Elizabeth Freestone, RSC Movement Director Struan Leslie, playwright Phil Porter, sound designer Adrienne Quartly, designer Tom Scutt and the Suffolk Trial Society.

RSC Literary Manager Pippa Hill said: "In the early seventeenth century paranoia and hatred fuelled a fire of witchcraft which razed the Suffolk soil. Neighbour informed on neighbour, women confessed under torture and the Witch-Finder General's reign of terror cleared the land of witches.

"We have based our event on an astonishing local tale about a mass grave found within the boundaries of the Festival and unearthed by the Suffolk Trial Society which they believe is evidence of one final, horrific trial in 1645."

Here Lies Mary Spindler follows the success of the RSC's playful contribution at last year's festival when playwright and RSC Literary Associate Anthony Neilson created The Big Lie.

The cast of seven includes RSC actors James Garnon and Amanda Hadingue.