PRESTON DRAMA CLUB present
THE CRUCIBLE
By Arthur Miller, directed by Jeff Brailsford
9th to 12th November 2011
Salem, Massachusetts; 1692
Teenage girls caught dancing naked in the woods; rumours rife, of witchcraft; a whipping for sure ..... unless Abigail can prevent it ....
Her solution is devastating, to cry witchcraft against the locals - firstly the misfits, then whoever crosses her path, even including her ex-lover’s wife, in the belief that will restart their affair; aided by other girls, all become caught up in unstoppable hysteria. Mortal fear grips, many are imprisoned, many condemned to die, and yet the whole, suddenly crazy, world seems powerless to stop it happening.
Arthur Miller, born in New York City, has been a prominent and influential playwright for the last half-century. His works include Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and All My Sons. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and in 1949 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
This powerful and frightening classic, an allegory for the anti-Communist hearings in America in the early 1950’s, is riveting theatre even yet.
Cast
Rev Samuel Parris | Don Stephenson |
Betty Parris | Elena Strefford-Caine |
Abigail Williams | Rachael Hall |
Tituba | Clare Corley |
Susanna Walcott | Leanne Sutton |
Ann Putnam | Marion Yardley |
Thomas Putnam | Tony Woolmington |
Mercy Lewis | Angela Kilpatrick |
Mary Warren | Nikki Brailsford |
John Proctor | Mark Kendall |
Rebecca Nurse | Margi Shaw |
Giles Corey | Alban Dorning |
Rev John Hale | Dennis Yardley |
Elizabeth Proctor | Christine Odlum |
Francis Nurse | Alan Freeman |
Ezekiel Cheever | Steve Rybowski |
Marshall Herrick | Alex Kerfoot |
Judge Hathorne | Adam Stauder |
Dep-Governor Danforth | William Buckley |
Sarah Good | Stella Judson |
