It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 16. It was initially called “The Chronicles of Sarah Good”. The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a central work in the canon of American drama. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. Nonetheless, the production won the 1953 “Best Play” Tony Award. Miller felt that this production was too stylized and cold and the reviews for it were largely hostile (although The New York Times noted “a powerful play driving performance”).
Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of “contempt of Congress” for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.Ģ] The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway on January 22, 1953. government blacklisted accused communists. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U. The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller.It was initially called “The Chronicles of Sarah Good”.
2] The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway on January 22, 1953.
Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of “contempt of Congress” for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.
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