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Anna Sophie Loewenberg as Betty Parris.

Rene Auberjonois as Deputy Governor Danforth.

Theatre Works full cast performance starring (in alphabetical order):Richard Dreyfuss as Reverend John Hale In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town.This play famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950s.The Crucible won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1953.An L.A. In the extremely religious context of Puritan New England, prominent members ofthe community see the Devil at work. A group of girls fell ill, with hallucinations and seizures. This standalone audiobook app combines a professional audio recording with supplemental features for download-once, grab-and-goanywhere enjoyment.It’s 1692 in the small Massachusetts village of Salem. “A deeply illuminating dramatisation of the unending battle between reason and madness.The Crucible (by Arthur Miller) is presented by L.A. “The Crucible suddenly seems like a play whose time has come again… with its portrayal of religious extremism and its impact on the state.” Daily Telegraph

A rare opportunity to see an ensemble of twenty superb actors bring to life this feverishly exciting moral thriller that pits personal responsibility against public good. Originally conceived as a response to the McCarthy anti-communist trials of the 1950’s the play now reads as a stark warning about the dangers of irrational belief. A chain of events is set in place in which the innocent are implicated by the hysteria and fear that permeate their whole community. When the young girls of a closed religious sect are discovered experimenting with devil-worship in the woods they try to save themselves by denouncing neighbours as witches and satanists.

Without a doubt one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, takes on an unnerving air of topicality in our terrorist age.