With these words, although, she creates a whole other issue.Īfter sending Ruth to communicate with her babies, Ruth became exceedingly ill. As a Puritan, having children that are not baptized is basically deemed as a sin itself. She uses this as an excuse for the many problems that she will soon be causing. She admits to doing this, justifying it by saying, “Reverend Parris, I have laid seven babies unbaptized in the earth, “ (Miller 1.214-215). This is done in hopes to apprehend the person who has been exterminating her children. In attempts to reach closure, Ann sends her daughter, Ruth, to summon the spirits of her dead children. Goody Putnam comes up with a specious conclusion, that a person has been conspiring with devil to rid Ann of her children. Answers are desired, with desperation to know why such tragic events have been occurring. В A L.A.Suspicion takes over Ann’s conscience after seven of her children are born with pale faces and no heartbeat. 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 1950вЂ™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 MillerвЂ™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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