Fighting The Darkness In The Crucible — londonist.com

The Crucible at The Old Vic is an immensely powerful American classic. It’s a chilling, and ultimately heart-wrenching drama that looks at a world torn apart by hysteria and vengeance, and one man’s fight to stop it. The setting is the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, used as a device by playwright Arthur Miller to convey the terror and hypocrisy of the ‘Red Scare’ of 1950s America, when even the most tenuous link to communism could spell the end of your career and quite probably land you in jail.

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