Most moving is Stacy Keach as John Proctor, who fights to salvage some good from the trials that destroy Salem. The young girls playing at witchcraft shriek in irregular counterpoint to the quiet, terrifying judgments rendered by Reverend Harris (Michael York), and doubt is ever more audible in the voice of Reverend Hale (Richard Dreyfuss). The star-studded cast ratchets the tension to a disturbing level as the town disintegrates. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - withВ ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor - The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s.Īudiofile Magazine review: "At once an allegory of the 1950s' anti-communist witch hunts and a spotlight on seventeenth-century witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, this play shows how ignorance and good intentions can interweave to destroy lives. Abigail was simply among the leaders of the females that billed townspeople of being witches. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. It concentrates around Abigail Williams and also John Proctor. The play has been adapted for various theatres from around the world and has been loved by the audience from all around the world.Ĭlick the button below to download The Crucible PDF free and read online.Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach stars in Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama that remains required reading in most high school and college English courses.The play comes under the Genre of Tragedy.The subject of the play is Salem witch trials, McCarthyism.The play was written in the English language.The Crucible was premiered at Martin Beck Theatre, New York City.The Crucible was premiered on date 22 January 1953.The major characters of the play are Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey, John Hathorne, Mary Warren, Thomas Danforth, Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor, Reverend Samuel Parris, Reverend John Hale and Abigail Williams.The Englishmen who landed there were motivated mainly by a hunt for profit. The proof of their belief’s value to them may be taken from the opposite character of the first Jamestown settlement, farther south, in Virginia. The Crucible is written by Arthur Miller. 6 The Crucible and they had to be to survive the life they had chosen or been born into in this country.The Crucible has been considered as a central work at the platform of American Drama.
After one-year new production was succeeded and The Crucible has been regarded as a classic. The Crucible won Tony Award for Best Play in the year 1953. The author felt that production is too stylized and cold and it got hostile reviews. On, The Crucible was performed in Martin Beck Theatre, starring Madeleine Sherwood, Beatrice Straight and E.
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