"I wanted to write a play about witches with no witches in it; a play not about evil, hysteria and possession by the devil but about poverty, humiliation and prejudice..." -Caryl Churchill in Introduction to Vinegar Tom, 1982

"Sometimes it's witches, or what will you choose?
Sometimes it's lunatics, shut them away.
It's blacks, and it's women, and often it's Jews.
...
Find something to burn.
Let it go up in smoke.
Burn your troubles away."
- "Something to Burn," Vinegar Tom