Abigail Williams collapsed at the dinner table that evening with a needle in her flesh and accused this character of having sent spirits to murder her. this character does become one of the accused in Act II and is taken to the jail after Mary Warren's poppet is discovered in her home with a needle in it. this character believes Abigail wants her accused and out of the way so she can marry her husband. When word of witchcraft starts to stir in Salem, this character begs John to go speak with Abigail, knowing that she is the ringmaster. this character loves her husband dearly, but has been unable to let go of her suspicions and judgment based on the affair. In Act II, it becomes evident to the reader/audience that there is a tension in the Proctor home which is rooted in a prior affair John Proctor had with Abigail Williams, their servant at the time. В A L.A.This character is the wife of John Proctor. Most moving is Stacy Keach as John Proctor, who fights to salvage some good from the trials that destroy Salem." The young girls playing at witchcraft shriek in irregular counterpoint to the quiet, terrifying judgments rendered by Reverend Harris (Michael York), and doubt is ever more audible in the voice of Reverend Hale (Richard Dreyfuss). The star-studded cast ratchets the tension to a disturbing level as the town disintegrates. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - withВ ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor - The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s.Īudiofile Magazine review: "At once an allegory of the 1950s' anti-communist witch hunts and a spotlight on seventeenth-century witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, this play shows how ignorance and good intentions can interweave to destroy lives.
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach stars in Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama that remains required reading in most high school and college English courses.
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