Arthur Miller’s timeless classic The Crucible depicts the real people and events of the historical Salem Witch Trials of 1692. When farmer John Proctor finds his wife Elizabeth and a score of other respectable community members accused of witchcraft, he goes to court determined to clear their names. There, Proctor’s former servant girl Abigail Williams and her friends further deepen John’s problems, by accusing him of witchcraft in a terrifyingly dramatic display of the “Devil.” Once convicted and like others accused before him, Proctor faces the ordeal of confessing to crimes he didn’t commit to spare his life or going to the hanging gallows an innocent man.
This 1953 Tony Award-winning play still serves today as a powerful warning about what happens when emotion defeats all reason, hysteria prevails, and human beings are cut down to the rawest survival mode of “kill or be killed.”

*PG-13 Audience – Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.