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The Crucible
There is no more horrible an example of groupthink than the Salem Witch Trials, and the masterful playwrite Arthur Miller does not shy away from the depths of depravity it sprouted. Meant as a mirror to the Red Scare, the dangers depicted in this play will never not be relevant.
A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community
The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.
First produced in 1953, at a tim...
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