YOU HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT.

The verdict may already be decided.

In Ashi Day’s Waking the Witch, you, the audience, are the accused witch, surrounded by interrogators, animal familiars, and a world where conspiracy, fear, religion, and authority collide.

“The conceit is that it doesn’t matter what the answers to their questions are because they’ve already made up their mind about what’s gonna happen and what’s true.” — Ashi Day, composer & librettist

Darkly theatrical and unsettlingly timely, Waking the Witch examines how conspiracy, religious authority, and collective fear turn suspicion into fact, asking what happens when a society decides who is guilty before anyone has a chance to speak.

The accusation has been made.

Will you confess?