Purity Ring Drama Group is preparing a unique performance for their 8th season!  This year the original play based on the book The Witch of Blackbird Pond, the 1959 Newbery Medal winner.  

	APRIL 14-16, 2011 Thu at 7:00, Fri at 7:00, Sat at 2:00 and 7:00 at The Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI Adult: $8 Student: $6 Reduced Prepaid Tickets: Call 231-439-5022

In April 1687, orphaned sixteen-year-old Kit leaves her home in the Caribbean to live with Puritan relatives in Connecticut.   Her freestyle island-ways soon have her pegged by the Puritan Community as suspicious and her reputation is further harmed as she finds refuge and friendship with a Quaker woman, who is believed to be a witch.   Despite warnings, Kit continues to visit and help her elderly friend, only to find herself facing a court with serious charges.

Radnitz Productions owns the performance rights to the book but has granted Purity Ring Drama Group permission to perform their own version of the story this spring.  They have chosen to follow closely to the book's story with the addition of a group of young gossiping women to help the play flow from scene to scene.

Blackbird Pond is a story set in early American history with lessons about the harm of gossip and the importance of family.