Paper Lantern Theatre Company, who achieved sell out success with their production of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams and ‘The Graduate’ by Terry Johnson, present Arthur Miller’s classic 1952 play, ‘The Crucible’. This iconic literary masterpiece is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials and consequential hangings that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government ostracized people for being communists in the 1950’s. It is regarded as a central work in the canon of American drama.
The crucible is a tragic andtimeless depiction of how bigotry, intolerance, personal vengeance and hysteria can tear a community apart. In his protagonist, John Proctor, Miller gives the audience a marvelous tragic hero for any time—a flawed figure who finds his moral centre just as everything is falling to pieces around him.
As pioneers of what has been termed ‘Filmic Theatre’, Paper Lantern promises a theatrical feast. Book tickets early to avoid disappointment.
An Amateur production, presented by Paper Lantern Theatre Company