Becomes the leader of a group of girls that accuse various Salem townspeople of witchcraft.Had an affair with John Proctor before the start of the play, and wants to continue her relationship with him.A teenage girl, and the niece of the local Reverend (Parris).Becomes one of a group of girls that accuse various Salem townspeople of witchcraft.At the start of the play she has fallen into a coma, after being discovered dancing in the woods near Salem.A young girl, and Reverend Parris’ daughter.

A greedy, self-centred man, who is more interested in how people see him and how much money he has, than how to help the townspeople of Salem.The father of Betty Parris and the uncle of Abigail Williams.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). The star-studded cast ratchets the tension to a disturbing level as the town disintegrates.

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 1950вЂ™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 MillerвЂ™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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