Melbourne Theatre CompanyWatching " or, more precisely, listening to " Melbourne Theatre Company's production of The Crucible, it's striking how pertinent Arthur Miller's parable of social paranoia remains. Miller's great tragedy about the Salem witch trials was as a response to McCarthyism, the anti-Communist hysteria which gripped the US at the height of the Cold War. Written at the height of his dramatic powers, T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38PM on June 27, 2013