His performance as John Proctor is absolutely stunning. Her production of Mies Julie won a string of international awards at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival, was named one of the Top Ten Productions of 2012 by The New York Times, and Top Five Productions of 2012 by The Guardian.īefore “The Crucible”, I had never seen Richard Armitage on stage (unsurprising really, as he turned on stage after 12 years gap), although I, naturally, saw him in The Hobbit trilogy and loved his acting. Yaël is a multiple award-winning director and playwright. The first one being Yerma, and I could definitely tell that both plays shared the same dark and gruesome feel.
It was the second play directed by her that I saw this year. Old Vic’s production of "The Crucible" was directed by Yaël Farber. Can’t believe it took Cineplex 2 years to bring it to their viewers in Canada!
I thought it was a relatively new production and was surprised to learn that it was originally staged in 2014 at Old Vic theatre in London, captured by Digital Theatre, then released digitally in 2015. Arthur Miller breaks the third person narrative by historical references and his own thoughts, which works really well and adds his perspective on the events and characters. The text is not dense at all, and reads fairly easily, in spite of an old type font in my copy. I watched the play first and then read the text, but I adored it even more for it. Needless to say, that this play is as relevant as ever today, and "witch hunt" is still used as a popular rhetoric in politics. He wrote the play as an allegory for the contemporary hysteria and accusations surrounding communism propaganda. Arthur Miller wrote his version of the events based on the evidence, adding some fictional elements and changes to the story. This is going to be the review of both the text of "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller and the Old Vic production of 2014, which was shown in Cineplex on July 2, 2017.Įverybody has heard of Salem witch trials, one of the most well known cases of mass hysteria in Colonial America between 16, that resulted in trials and executions of over a dozen of people accused of witchcraft and consorting with devil.
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