Dust of Providence

In Roxanne Ray’s Dust of Providence, it is the year 1706 in Salem, Massachusetts, and 26-year-old Ann Putnam heads a household of younger siblings, in the wake of their parents’ deaths under suspicious circumstances. She must balance her siblings’ desires to join the Salem church against pressures from fellow witch-trials accuser Elizabeth Hubbard — and her own internal fears — to suppress all memory of her actions in 1692. Into this mix comes a new minister, Reverend Green, and his wife, who struggle to encourage Salem’s inhabitants toward reconciliation. Steve Cooper directs.