The Crucible - 2

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Playbill May 2016

Ben Whishaw, Sophie Okonedo, Ciaran Hinds, Saoirse Ronan

Walter Kerr Theatre 

 

 

The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory to McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of “contempt of Congress” for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.It was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway on January 22, 1953. Miller felt that this production was too stylized and cold and the reviews for it were largely hostile (although The New York Times noted “a powerful play [in a] driving performance”). Nonetheless, the production won the 1953 “Best Play” Tony Award. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. Today it is studied in high schools and universities because of its status as a revolutionary work of theatre and for its allegorical relationship to testimony given before the Committee On Un-American Activities during the 1950s. It is a central work in the canon of American drama.

Playbill May 2016
Run Mar 01, 2016 - Jul 17, 2016
Condition: Used Good 8/10

Directed by Ivo Van Hove  (Please Note scans are low res for fast loading)

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