The Crucible

This production is the record of a stage play. The play is a text written by Arthur Miller. Its subject is the witch trials at Salem in the seventeenth century. In the town the behaviour of several young girls turns strange. The accusation spreads quickly. Neighbours begin informing on one another. The court offers confession as the way out. Those who lie live and those who hold out die. John Proctor is caught in the middle of that order. A fault in his own past is part of it. Miller wrote the play for the witch hunt of his own time. The staging was built so that the audience surrounds the action. Richard Armitage takes the lead in the hundred and ninety five minute recording. Samantha Colley and Anna Madeley are in the cast, a British production Yaël Farber finished in 2014.