![]() ![]() When Elizabeth discovered the affair, she dismissed Abigail. Elizabeth Proctor was ill at the time and Abigail took on more responsibility within the Proctor household. Prior to the opening of the play, Abigail worked as a servant in the Proctor home. John Proctor and Abigail talk privately about their former relationship. Betty wakes, and Abigail threatens the other girls with violence if they tell anyone that she drank blood and cast a spell in order to kill Goody Proctor. There is talk in the village of an unnatural cause.Ībigail warns her friend Mercy Lewis and the Proctors' servant Mary Warren, not to reveal that they were all casting spells in the woods. Putnam arrive and reveal that their daughter Ruth is also ill. The local physician is unable to determine the cause of Betty's illness. ![]() Around midnight the night before, Parris had discovered Betty, his niece Abigail, and Tituba, his black slave, dancing in the woods, causing Betty to swoon. The action begins in the home of Reverend Parris, whose daughter Betty lies unconscious and appears very ill. “A deeply illuminating dramatisation of the unending battle between reason and madness.The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. “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. ![]()
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