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The Crucible
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Play closed 10 June 2006
Gielgud Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue, London
The Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
When young women are discovered trying to conjure spirits, the town of Salem is gripped by accusations of witchcraft. In a community paralysed by fear and religious extremism, recrimination and greed take a deadly hold. The Royal Shakespeare Company celebrates the life and work of Arthur Miller with one of his greatest plays. This is the RSC's first ever major, main stage production of am Arthur Miller play. It is directed RSC Associate Director Dominic Cooke.
"A superb production" The Guardian
This production of The Crucible comes into London's West End following a critically acclaimed season at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford where it played a limited season from 16 February to 18 March 2006
"An excellent new revival" The Independent
"What a powerful, moving production of The Crucible Dominic Cooke has directed at the RSC. It is also a refreshingly straight presentation of Arthur Miller’s play about a witch-hunt in a Puritan community... Cooke does not heavy-handedly underscore the resonance between the Puritans' paranoid pursuit of 'justice' and aspects of our own war on terror. In his production the inhabitants of Salem wear 17th-century dress, and speak a historically correct mix of East Anglian burr and proto-American. It's an approach that credits the audience with the intelligence to think for themselves." The Sunday Telegraph
"A shatteringly powerful production that never relaxes its grip for a moment... A…knockout revival of a modern classic" The Daily Telegraph
"Dominic Cooke's splendid, tense production reminds you of what a master of dramatic momentum Arthur Miller was. The ensemble playing is flawless and Iain Glen's Proctor superb... The passion in Glen's performance is consuming and unforced. He is a series of heatwaves, scorched by truth, hanging for it. There is no false note here, no weak link in the cast." The Observer
