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Lisa K Wyatt is expressive, surprising and endlessly watchable as spinster-turned-witch Laura Willowes, whose put-upon, worried-looking vulnerability (peppered with slyly witty observations about her annoying family) gives way to an almost carnal desire for solitude (and the dark embrace of Satan).
The script, adapted by Sal Niccolazo and director Kate Motzenbacker, is full of rich descriptive language, dry comedy and subtle social commentary. The direction by Motzenbacker is elegant, often playful, letting Wyatt’s performance shine. Within the miniature set, wreathed by a circle of flowers, Wyatt prepares tea, eats people-shaped scones, and listens to the voices of her pitch-perfectly awful family which pipe in as if from a vintage radio. Then she starts standing up to the voices, and it’s a wicked delight to watch her lean in, via witchcraft, and finally start living her best life.
