Starr Hergenrather - Director
Please join us for our Fall production of
| Arthur Miller's Directed by Starr Hergenrather WHEN: NOVEMBER TICKETS: Seniors & Students: $5 Advance ticket sales:
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The Crucible, by Arthur Miller is a play based upon the events in 1692, which led to the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. Miller wrote the play in the early 1950s during the time of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956. The play was first performed on Broadway on January 22, 1953. The reviews of the first production were hostile, but a year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. Today it is studied in high schools and universities, because of its status as a revolutionary work of theatre and for its allegorical relationship to testimony given before the House Committee On Un-American Activities during the 1950s. See full press release
announcing the play. We are so grateful to our wonderful sponsors of this production -- please be sure to thank them for supporting Analy Theater Arts next time you do business with them!
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