A good production. The stage looks bare but it was quite sophisticated with a number of entrance points, and actors able to appear above other actors or behind screens looking on. Well acted by the cast and a good direction.
It was much better than I expected, when I read the play ages ago I thought it was a poor version of Huxley's (very sprawling) book, but on stage it is much more powerful.
Hard to watch it without thinking of Ken's film. The torture of Grandier was there (audience members were a bit disconcerted) but the actual trial wasn't. The nuns being possessed was done well (with three nuns) and the trick of the king (identified as such in the play, but Ken suggests this is hidden) using the power of the blood of Christ to end the possession, only to expose it all as fake as there was no blood,
Someone in the audience behind me said before the show it was "about some priest and possessed nuns". Er, no.