![]() ![]() These two contextual lectures will provide an excellent foundation for our presentation from director Desdemona Chiang and dramaturg Mark Perry who will discuss the ways the creative choices they made for the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s current production of The Crucible reinvigorate the play with a fresh look and renewed relevance in today’s world. Professors Randall Styers and William Sturkey will provide historical context for both witch hunting in the early modern era, as well as Communist “witch hunting” in the U.S. Yet, more than sixty years later, this landmark work about social scapegoating remains provocative and timely. In collaboration with the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of The CrucibleĪrt hur Miller’s 1953 play on the Salem witch trials, The Crucible, was written as an allegory of McCarthyism and the anti-Communist hysteria in the U.S. History, Social Commentary, and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible ![]()
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