The Crucible

Our Production Class' third season for 2011 and one that promises to be riveting, is Arthur Miller's classic play about truth on trial, The Crucible.

A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men, are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites. The villagers of Salem, led by Reverend Parris and Minister Hale, force them to name those involved.

Led by Abigail Williams, a young seventeen year old woman infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of his innocent wife, the girls accuse all that would oppose them or attempt to prove them false in a bid to save themselves.

Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded their innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950's America.

The Crucible will be performed in December 2011 with the following cast: Directed by Matt Hillman
 * John Proctor - Aaron Webster
 * Abigail Williams - Roxy Tamlin
 * Elizabeth Proctor - Emma Reale
 * Judge Thomas Danforth - Josh Harkness
 * Mary Warren - Sinead Joliffe
 * Reverend Parris - Scott Jeffrey
 * Minister Hale - Tara Coulson
 * Willard - Serena Lever
 * Judge Hathorne - Victoria Ward
 * Eziekiel Cheever - Josh Inwood
 * Rebecca Nurse - Sharon Wills
 * Francis Nurse - Jake Machin
 * Giles Corey - Jason English
 * Thomas Putnam - Kayne Hughes
 * Ann Putnam - Dana Valic
 * Sarah Good/Martha Corey - Kirra Machin
 * Tituba - Sarah Walker
 * Susannah Walcott - Mia Sabec
 * Mercy Lewis - Monica Butler
 * Betty Parris - Emi Van der Velden