The Welkin

Sandra Oh plays one of a dozen women charged with determining whether a wild young woman condemned as a murderer is pregnant—which would spare her from the hangman's noose—in Lucy Kirkwood's ensemble drama. Sarah Benson directs a large cast that includes Ann Harada, Dale Soules, Suzannah Perkins, Hannah Cabell, Glenn Fitzgerald and Haley Wong. This very ambitious piece is a bit uneven both in writing and execution, but at its best it suggests a cross between Twelve Angry Men and The Crucible, as written by Caryl Churchill.