Who: Red Bull Theater
What: Live unrehearsed online Zoom reading
Where: Red Bull Theater website and Facebook and Vimeo
When: Monday, May 4, free, 7:30
Why: In 2011, Red Bull Theater staged Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley’s 1621 Jacobean tragedy, The Witch of Edmonton, at the Theater at St. Clement’s. The New York-based company, which on April 20 brought back the cast of its 2015 revival of Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore for a free, online, live unrehearsed reading, is now doing the same with The Witch of Edmonton, assembling most of the original cast for a virtual presentation on May 4 at 7:30. Performing from wherever they’re sheltering in place will be Charlayne Woodard as Elizabeth Sawyer, Craig Baldwin as Warbeck and Countryman, Justin Blanchard as Frank Thorney, Christopher Innvar as Sir Arthur Clarington, Carman Lacivita as Somerton and Countryman, Christopher McCann as Thorney, Amanda Quaid as Katherine, Everett Quinton as Old Ratcliffe and Anne Ratcliffe, Miriam Silverman as Winifred, Derek Smith as Dog, Raphael Nash Thompson as Justice, Sam Tsoutsouvas as Carter, and newcomers Antoinette Robinson, David Manis, and Carson Elrod, with music by Daniel Levy. In a statement, company founder Jesse Berger, who directed the 2011 production, explained, “We want to engage you and our entire community with something stimulating and of genuine value. We’re not promising a finished performance but rather a unique way to experience the rarely seen The Witch of Edmonton.” It’s free to watch, although donations are accepted. Next up in this program are live, unrehearsed readings of Red Bull’s bloody good 2016 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus on May 18, its 2005-6 version of Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy on June 1, and Jeffrey Hatcher’s fab 2017 adaptation of Gogol’s The Government Inspector on June 15.