A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland,The Last Witchexplores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart.
Dornoch, northern Scotland, 1727. In the claustrophobic heat of summer, a woman's apparent ability to manipulate the power of land and sea stirs suspicion. Janet Horne can cure beasts, call the wind and charm fish out of the sea. Or can she? Her refusal to deny the charge of witchcraft puts her in dangerous opposition to the new sheriff. Her defiance threatens not only her own life but that of her daughter...
Rona Munro's playThe Last Witchis based on the historical account of Janet Horne, the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland.
