"The Crucible (1957 film) The Crucible (, or ""Hexenjagd"") is a 1957 joint Franco-East German film production directed by Raymond Rouleau with a screenplay adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre from the 1953 play ""The Crucible"", by Arthur Miller. 1692, Salem, Massachusetts. John Proctor is the only member in the town's assembly who resists the attempts of the rich to gain more wealth on the expense of the poor farmers, thus incurring the wrath of deputy governor Danforth. Proctor's sternly puritanical wife, Elizabeth, is sick and has not shared his bed for months, and he was seduced by his maid, Abigail. When"
"trials. The Arthur Miller play on which it was based was written as an allegory for McCarthyism and the Red Scare, which occurred in the United States in the 1950s. Miller was himself questioned by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956. Several women and men in the town are accused of witchcraft by a group of young girls led by Abigail Williams. Her jealousy of John Proctor's wife, Elizabeth, leads Abigail to accuse Elizabeth of witchcraft. John himself is eventually accused and hangs rather than recant, saying he can't dirty his name and stands up for what he"
"and incidental mistakes. Abigail Williams' age was increased from 11 or 12 to 17, probably to add credence to the backstory of Proctor's affair with Abigail. John Proctor himself was 60 years old in 1692, but portrayed as much younger in the play, for the same reason. Miller claimed, in ""A note on the historical accuracy of this play"", that ""while there were several judges of almost equal authority, I have symbolized them all in Hathorne and Danforth"". However, this conflates Danforth with the historical and extremely influential figure of William Stoughton, who is not a character and is only"
"because ""the play showed John Proctor persecuted, but no one knows why... His death seems like a purely ethical act, rather than one of freedom, that is undertaken in order to resist the situation effectively. In Miller's play... Each of us can see what he wants, each public will find in it confirmation of its own attitude... Because the real political and social implications of the witch-hunt don't appear clearly."" The screenplay was 300 pages long. Sartre's version was different from the original play in many ways; Elizabeth saves Abigail from lynching and the townspeople rise up against Thomas Danforth,"
"In the 1957 screen adaptation of Miller's piece, he was depicted by Yves Brainville. In the 1996 film version of the play, he was portrayed by Rob Campbell, as a much younger man than would have been historically accurate, as Hale was fifty-six at the time of the trials; however, the play itself isn't entirely historically accurate, particularly with ages. For instance, Diane E Foulds (along with many others) affirm that Abigail Williams would have been closer to 12 than 17, and that John Proctor would have been near 60, so this change in age for the film version is"
"John Graham Davies John Graham-Davies is a British/Canadian actor and writer, most famous for playing Les Hunter in the soap-opera Hollyoaks from 2001 to 2005. During his early career Davies was a member of the Canadian National Theater, appearing in Troilus and Cressida, Camino Real and touring nationally in Hamlet. He was in the original cast of John Godber's 1983 play Bouncers. He worked at a number of theatres in the eighties and nineties, including Leeds Playhouse, where he played John Proctor in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, as well as the Sheffield Crucible Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Swan Theatre, Worcester and"
"a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The performances of Day-Lewis, Scofield, and Ryder were also the subjects of critical praise. Early one morning in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, some young village girls meet in the woods with a Barbadian slave named Tituba. One of the girls, Abigail Williams, kills a chicken and drinks the blood, wishing for John Proctor's wife to die. They are discovered by Abigail's uncle, Reverend Samuel Parris. As the girls run away, Parris' daughter Betty falls over unconscious. Parris questions Abigail about the events that took place in the woods; Betty will not awaken, nor will"
"is not a character in the play, and Miller portrays Danforth as an honest but domineering and selfish judge, under whose authority many are imprisoned and sentenced to hang. When John Proctor, an accused, defies his authority at the end of the play by refusing to lie and sign a public confession saying that he is a witch and accusing others, he is mercilessly sentenced to hang. In an introduction to the play, Miller wrote that he had combined several persons and made other changes to the historical characters for dramatic purposes. Miller also wrote the screenplay for the 1996"
"save herself and the other girls from punishment, Abigail claims that Tituba was working with the devil. After being whipped, Tituba confesses to being a witch, and is saved from being hanged. Struck by their new power, the other girls begin naming other women whom they ""saw"" with the devil, including Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor's wife. John, determined not to give his former lover her vengeance, insists that his servant, Mary Warren, one of the ""afflicted"" girls, testify in court that the witchcraft was faked. Although Mary Warren is frightened of Abigail, she eventually agrees. In the court, Francis Nurse"
"and leaves to address the crowd. The other girls involved in the incident join Abigail and a briefly roused Betty, who attempts to jump out of the window. Abigail coerces and threatens the others to ""stick to their story"" of merely dancing in the woods. The other girls are frightened of the truth being revealed (in actuality, they tried to conjure a curse against Elizabeth Proctor) and being labelled witches, so they go along with Abigail. Betty then faints back into unconsciousness. John Proctor, a local farmer and husband of Elizabeth, enters. He sends the other girls out (including Mary"
"not entirely out of line with the source material of the play. In the movie, Hale's wife is accused by Abigail Williams once she begins to suspect him of doubting her claims. This is quickly dismissed by Danforth, leading to Abigail escaping from the village. He then later sadly witnessed the hanging of Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey and John Proctor. John Hale is played by Xander Berkeley (as Magistrate Hale) in the 2014 TV series ""Salem"". John Hale (minister) John Hale (June 3, 1636 – May 15, 1700), commonly referred to as ""Reverend Hale"", was the Puritan pastor of Beverly,"
"trial; alternately, a container in which metals or other substances are subjected to high temperatures. The characters whose moral standards prevail in the face of death, such as John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse, symbolically refuse to sacrifice their principles or to falsely confess. The play was adapted by composer Robert Ward as an opera, ""The Crucible"", which was first performed in 1961 and received the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Music Critics' Circle Award. The play has been presented several times on television. One notable 1968 production starred George C. Scott as John Proctor, Colleen Dewhurst"
"""A Memory of Two Mondays"". Their fully staged production of the play was directed by Nathaniel Swift and featured Nina O'Keefe, Ron Butts, Matt Welton, Joe McCauley, Rebecca Prescott, and J. P. Pierson. Reviewer Paige Listerud wrote, ""A little miracle is taking place at the Greenhouse Theatre Center—Eclipse Theatre is brilliantly executing a late and oft misunderstood play by Arthur Miller ."" Resurrection Blues Resurrection Blues (2002) is Arthur Miller's penultimate play. Though Miller was not known for his humor, this play uses a pointed comedic edge to intensify his observations about the dangers, as well as the benefits, of"
"Warren’s confession comes to nothing. Williams accuses Warren of witchcraft, which leads to Warren to renounce her confession and accuse Proctor of forcing her to make it. Proctor is later hanged as he renounces his confession to save his heart and soul. In the 1957 and 1996 film adaptations of Miller's play, she was depicted by Pascale Petit and Karron Graves, respectively. Mary Warren Mary Ann Warren was the oldest accuser during the 1692 Salem witch trials, being 18 years old, when the trials began. She was a servant for John and Elizabeth Proctor. Renouncing her claims after being threatened"
"witch, Mary Warren accuses John of witchcraft. When asked if he will return to God, John despairingly yells ""I say God is dead!"" and is arrested as a witch. On the day before John Proctor is to be hanged, Abigail attempts to convince the court that Reverend Hale's wife is also a witch (because Hale was the lone person in the town who doubted her claims). However, this plot backfires as the judges do not believe her: a minister's wife is considered to be pure. In time, the girls become outcasts and Abigail steals Reverend Parris' money to catch a"
"scene and every shot"". Kenneth Turan of ""Los Angeles Times"" took note of the ""overwhelming empathy she creates with the subtlest means, the remarkable way she's able to create achingly personal, intensely emotional sequences while seeming not to be doing very much at all."" Ronan received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama. In 2016, Ronan moved to New York City to begin rehearsals for her debut appearance on Broadway, in a revival of Arthur Miller's play ""The Crucible"". She took the role of Abigail Williams, a manipulative"
"in ""Antony and Cleopatra"" opposite Colleen Dewhurst, in Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. He won two Obie Awards for his work Off Broadway; for his 1958 performance as John Proctor in ""The Crucible"" and in 1980 in David Mamet's play ""Reunion"". He won a Drama Desk Award in 1978 for his role in ""Molly"", earning honors as Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. He appeared in early live television productions including ""Kraft Television Theatre"", ""Academy Theatre"" and ""Studio One"", as well as on ""Ben Casey"", ""Gunsmoke"" and ""The Andy Griffith Show"". From 1949 to 1951, he played the"
"tour with his new bride. Filmed on location and first broadcast by NBC as the pilot for a weekly TV series. The project failed to post a sale and St. James went on to costar in McMillan & Wife. The Crucible (1972) – A New Mexico State University production opening September 30, 1972. The Arthur Miller play, first produced in New York in 1955, explores the notorious witch hunts of Salem, Mass. Starring Kimbrough as NMSU guest artist, in the role of Jon Proctor and featuring Cornelia Easterling and Marcia Thomas. Night Call Nurses (1972) – Kimbrough delivers a fantastic"
"The Crucible The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692/93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway"
"and other modern American writers, such as Odets, O'Neill, and Tennessee Williams, but soon expanded to the contemporary world dramas of Samuel Beckett, Brecht, Genet, John Osborne, Yukio Mishima, and Harold Pinter. Respected as an actor as well as director, Irving played major roles, including Proctor in ""The Crucible"" and Happy in ""Death of a Salesman"" (which he also directed) in the Workshop's productions of Arthur Miller plays. When the Workshop produced the west coast premiere of Beckett's ""Waiting for Godot"", Irving was the loquacious servant, Lucky. The production played to the Workshop's regular audiences, then performed for inmates at"
"Brian Friel, from Northern Ireland, has been recognised as a major Irish and English-language playwright almost since the first production of ""Philadelphia, Here I Come!"" in Dublin in 1964. Tom Murphy is a major contemporary playwright and was honoured by the Abbey Theatre in 2001 by a retrospective season of six of his plays. His plays include the historical epic ""Famine"" (1968), which deals with the Irish Potato Famine between 1846 and spring 1847, ""The Sanctuary Lamp"" (1975), ""The Gigli Concert"" (1983) and ""Bailegangaire"" (1985). Frank McGuinness first came to prominence with his play ""The Factory Girls"", but established his"
"acquired reputations for their work in the play; Anne Marshall was noted for her portrayal of the title character in the 1660s, while in the next century Mrs. Macklin, the wife of Charles Macklin, was a popular success as the servant Abigail. The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 19 March 1616; both the Register entry and the first edition assign the play to Beaumont and Fletcher. Cyrus Hoy, in his survey of authorship problems in the canon of Fletcher and his collaborators, produced this breakdown in the two writers' contributions: Hoy's schema is in general agreement with"
"November 2015. Armitage next appeared as John Proctor in The Old Vic's production of Arthur Miller's ""The Crucible"". Directed by Yaël Farber and performed in the round, the play ran from 21 June to 13 September 2014. The production drew an unprecedented number of 5-star reviews and was a commercial success. For his performance, Armitage was awarded Best Leading Actor in a New Production of a Play by Broadway World:UK Awards 2014 and a Best Actor nomination for an Olivier Award. Due to worldwide demand to see the production, Digital Theatre captured the live performance to bring ""The Crucible"" to"
"No Villain No Villain is a play written by Arthur Miller during his sophomore year of college in 1936, during spring break. This was his first work, reportedly written in six days in the hope of winning a $250 Hopwood Award in drama, the first of two that he won. ""No Villain"" explores Marxist theory and inner conflict through an individual facing ruin as a result of a strike. The audience is introduced in the first scene to the Simons, an immigrant family, in their parlor anxiously awaiting the return of their son from university. The Simons were at once"
"""Aurora Leigh"" (1856), which explored a woman's plight between conventional marriage and the radical possibility that a woman could become an independent artist. In drama, the late nineteenth century saw such ""New Woman"" plays as Henrik Ibsen's ""A Doll's House"" (1879) and ""Hedda Gabler"" (1890), Henry Arthur Jones's play ""The Case of Rebellious Susan"" (1894) and George Bernard Shaw's controversial ""Mrs. Warren's Profession"" (1893) and ""Candida"" (1898). According to a joke by Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), ""The New Woman sprang fully armed from Ibsen's brain"" (an allusion to the birth of Athena). Bram Stoker's Dracula makes prominent mention of the New"
"time as Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway); ""American Primitive"" (1969) a verse play adapted from the letters of John and Abigail Adams, premiered at Williamstown Theatre Festival, directed by Frank Langella and starring Anne Bancroft; ""Goodly Creatures"" (1980), about Puritan dissident Anne Hutchinson; and ""Monday After the Miracle"" (1982), a continuation of the Helen Keller story. His ill-received ""Golda"" (1977), a work about the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir became so popular in its revised version, ""Golda's Balcony"" (2003), that it set a record as the longest-running one-woman play in Broadway history on January 2, 2005. In 1973, Gibson published"
"that makes for a rich and deeply intriguing play - and one which raises questions not only about morality but individual responsibility. Adrian; Maya; Marcus; Irina; Sigmund The Archbishop's Ceiling The Archbishop's Ceiling is a drama written in the 1970s by Arthur Miller. It was originally produced at the John F. Kennedy Center in 1977, but failed to attract the attention of Broadway. Miller subsequently re-worked the play, with a revised script premiering at Cleveland Play House in 1984 under the direction of Jonathan Bolt. The setting is an ornate room in a former Archbishop's palace in an Eastern European"
"War. (Again, narration not present in all versions). The remainder of Act Two is set in the Proctor's home. John and Elizabeth are incredulous that nearly forty people have been arrested for witchcraft based on the pronouncements of Abigail and the other girls. John knows their apparent possession and accusations of witchcraft are untrue, as Abigail told him as much when they were alone together in the first act, but is unsure of how to confess without revealing the affair. Elizabeth is disconcerted to learn her husband was alone with Abigail. She believes John still lusts after Abigail and tells"
"Royal Bath as a 40th anniversary production, starring Amanda Abbington as Beverly, Ciarán Owens as Tony, Charlotte Mills as Angela, Rose Keegan as Sue and Ben Caplan as Laurence. Abigail's Party Abigail's Party is a play for stage and television devised and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh. It is a suburban situation comedy of manners, and a satire on the aspirations and tastes of the new middle class that emerged in Britain in the 1970s. The play developed in lengthy improvisations during which Mike Leigh explored the characters with the actors, but did not always reveal the incidents that"
"in 1999, and believed in 2012 that some of his other plays are superior works. The play opened Off-Broadway at the Potomac Theatre Project in July 2008, directed by Richard Romagnoli and starring Jan Maxwell as Galactia. Maxwell was nominated for the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play. Scenes from an Execution Scenes from an Execution is a play by the English playwright Howard Barker. The plot revolves around a female artist's struggles against the Venetian city-state in the aftermath of the 15th century Battle of Lepanto. Although the city commissions the painting to celebrate the victory over"
"to sign a confession. The townspeople rebel, but not before John is hanged with other defendants; his pregnant wife has been spared. Elizabeth tells the angry crowd to let Abigail live. Jean-Paul Sartre began writing the script in late 1955, during what author David Caute defined as ""the height of his rapprochement with the Soviet Union"". He was inspired by the success of Marcel Aymé's French-language adaptation of Miller's ""The Crucible"", titled ""Les sorcières de Salem"", which was staged in Paris' Sarah Bernhardt Theater, starring Simone Signoret as Elizabeth Proctor. Sartre later said he was moved to write his adaptation"
"she has hoped, and that mankind will forever fight and kill. She leads the Women's Chorus in a wordless lament to the sorrow of war. Appomattox (opera) Appomattox is an opera in English based on the American Civil War, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by the playwright Christopher Hampton. The work had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on October 5, 2007, with a cast that included Dwayne Croft as Robert E. Lee and Andrew Shore as Ulysses S. Grant. The piece is about two and a half hours long, in two acts, with a prologue"
"Appomattox (opera) Appomattox is an opera in English based on the American Civil War, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by the playwright Christopher Hampton. The work had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on October 5, 2007, with a cast that included Dwayne Croft as Robert E. Lee and Andrew Shore as Ulysses S. Grant. The piece is about two and a half hours long, in two acts, with a prologue and an epilogue. Julia Dent Grant sings of her fears for her husband, Ulysses, and her sense of foreboding. She is soon joined by Mary"