It is regarded as a central work in the canon of American drama. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. The production won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. 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 driving performance"). Miller himself was even questioned and convicted under similar circumstances. This play uses the Salem witch trials, as comparisons to the McCarthy government which hunted down suspect communists in the USA. Marshall, Beatrice Straight and Madeleine Sherwood. FREE DOWNLOADThe Classic book The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Download for free or listen online all your favorite audiobooks. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that ladies are exercising witchcraft galvanize the town. The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway on January 22, 1953, starring E. Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach star with this full-cast performance of Arthur Miller’s traditional The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama. Miller 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. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. Massachusetts, in the spring of the year 1692. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. A small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem.
A Tony Award Champion for Greatest Play.Īn L.A.The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller.
In a searing family portrait of the community engulfed by stress – with ruthless prosecutors, and neighbours eager to testify against neighbor – The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that kept the United States in its about The Crucible hold in the 1950’s. Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach star with this full-cast performance of Arthur Miller’s traditional The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama.
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