Burnsville High School students are bringing to life the hysteria of the 1692 Salem witch trials later this month in “The Crucible ... “Every day we are more comfortable in ourselves ...

Arthur Miller’s 1953 play is a bona fide modern classic, its study of hysteria and ... A good Crucible, but not a great one. To 12 July, shakespearesglobe.com. To receive the best stories in your ...

“The Crucible” will be held on ... way to discuss the political and cultural hysteria that existed over communism, the ‘witch-hunt’ of his day. “I think he chose to write about the ...

I was drained at the end of “The Crucible,” but not by the nearly ... real-life Salem witch trials of 1690s and the lying and hysteria that turned neighbor against neighbor in a wave of ...

Set in 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts, “The Crucible” focused on the hysteria and kangaroo trials that had resulted in the deaths of nearly two dozen individuals accused of being witches or ...

Arthur Miller’s riveting play “The Crucible ... they echo in modern-day instances of both social and political “witch hunts.” The story explores the mass hysteria and paranoia that ...

LOUD, screechy and full of good intentions, Arthur Miller’s 1953 drama “The Crucible” is a terrific ... In 1996, about the time Daniel Day-Lewis was starring in a movie version of the ...

He admittedly was addressing the McCarthy era, America’s modern witch hunt in which ... direction through ignorance, fear, and hysteria. ‘The Crucible’ is often called a historical drama ...

So says John Proctor, doomed hero of The Crucible. It’s the line that most succinctly sums up what is really happening in Arthur Miller’s eternally relevant 1953 play (set amid the hysteria of ...