Most moving is Stacy Keach as John Proctor, who fights to salvage some good from the trials that destroy Salem. The young girls playing at witchcraft shriek in irregular counterpoint to the quiet, terrifying judgments rendered by Reverend Harris (Michael York), and doubt is ever more audible in the voice of Reverend Hale (Richard Dreyfuss). Mercy Lewis, Mary Warren, and Betty reveal about their recent activities They were in the forest dancing, Abigail drank blood, and Mercy Lewis was naked. Named by Elizabeth Proctor as someone who confessed to being a witch. Drunk Salem resident hanged as a witch John Proctor is compared favorably to him. She participates in the witch trials by pretending to see spirits and falsely accusing individuals of. Father of Mercy Lewis reports he thought his daughter was staying over with Abigail Williams for a night. Mercy Lewis, the Putnams’ servant, drops in and reports that Ruth seems better. A judge who presides, along with Danforth, over the witch trials. The star-studded cast ratchets the tension to a disturbing level as the town disintegrates. Mercy Lewis Servant to the Putnams and friend to Abigail. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - withВ ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor - The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s.Īudiofile Magazine review: "At once an allegory of the 1950s' anti-communist witch hunts and a spotlight on seventeenth-century witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, this play shows how ignorance and good intentions can interweave to destroy lives. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach stars in Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama that remains required reading in most high school and college English courses. Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach stars in Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama that remains required reading in most high school and college English courses.
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