Bristol Old VicA fiery new production of Arthur Miller's masterpiece returns to the stage of its 1954 British premiereIn the centenary year of Arthur Miller's birth, his play about the Salem witch trials takes on yet another shade of meaning. When first staged, The Crucible rang out with a denunciation of McCarthyism. Since 9/11 it has seemed to glance at the Patriot Act, religious fundamentalism and the unreliabilit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:41AM on October 18, 2015