The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

Synopsis

Arthur miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the american anti-communist purges led by senator mccarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.