By Arthur Miller. National Theatre Live. Cinema Nova & other participating cinemas nationally. 4 – 12 March 2023
For most of today’s audiences, terms such as God, the Devil, salvation, witches don’t have much credibility or substance. Yet they are used with dangerous certainty by the characters in Arthur Miller’s 1953 play. For them, all these things are without question real. For most of today’s audiences, the parallel with ‘McCarthyism’ too may well be unknown. So why is The Crucible, in this excellent, sustained production, still so gripping, so frightening, and even so plausible?