2003

The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
State Theatre Company
with Urban Myth Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
March, 2003.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

In his memoirs Arthur Miller describes driving back from Salem, Massachusetts and hearing on the radio that Elia Kazan, his close friend and the director of his famous play Death of a Salesman, had agreed to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee. It is 1952 and Miller is in Salem researching the witch trials which had enveloped …