![]() ![]() “ The critics were not swept away,” wrote Miller of The Crucible’s first staging in 1953 but it has become one of his most frequently revived plays thanks to its potent consideration of persecution, suspicion, deception and the abuse of power. I can’t begin to describe how grateful I am to get to rip open and explore a being as complex as Abigail Williams.” The scenario is used as an allegory for the anti-communist “red scare”, a political witch-hunt spearheaded by the House Un-American Activities Committee and senator Joseph McCarthy that reached boiling point in the 1950s.ĭoherty said that “to be working with Lyndsey Turner on this play at the National is immensely exciting and still utterly unbelievable to say out loud. Erin Doherty, best known for portraying Princess Anne in The Crown, will play Abigail Williams whose past affair with Proctor leads her to stoke the hysteria about witchcraft that breaks out in 17th-century Salem. ![]() The Australian actor Brendan Cowell has been cast as farmer John Proctor. ![]()
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