The crucible

A play for all time: “The tragedy of 'The Crucible' is the everlasting conflict between people so fanatically wedded to this orthodoxy that they could not cope with the evidence of their senses.” ~Arthur Miller

All My Sons, 2015

JUNE 9 TO JULY 1 WRITTEN BY ARTHUR MILLER DIRECTED BY SETH ALLEN

As written by Arthur Miller, The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 during the Salem witch trials. The play is a fictionalized version of the trials and tells the story of a group of young Salem women who falsely accuse other villagers of witchcraft. The accusations and ensuing trials push the village into a hysteria which results in the arrest of 200 villagers and the deaths of 19. Miller wrote the play as an allegory, revealing the political and moral parallels between the Salem witch trials and the McCarthy trials of his own time.

Pentacle Theatre will expand this allegory by setting this production at the flashpoint of the American cultural revolution in the early 1960s.