The Crucible " review
Theatre Royal, YorkYork Theatre Royal has become, temporarily at least, York theatre-in-the-round for a season of plays. It is rare to see Arthur Miller's epic dissection of the Salem witch trials at such close quarters, and there are gains and losses to be made from staging The Crucible in, well, a crucible.The potency of Miller's political allegory is clear. The zealous terror can be applied to whatever bogeyman tr…