Getting to the essence of 'The Crucible'
Photo credit: Michael Heller | The Bay Street Theater production of "The Crucible" at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will play from Nov. 9-24, with 10 percent of the proceeds donated to Island Harvest. The cast includes Ken Forman (Reverend Samual Parris), Joanna Howard (Abigail Williams), Kate Mueth (Mrs. Ann Putnam), Al Bundonis (Thomas Putnam) Mackenzie Engeldrum (Mercy Lewis), Kate O'Phalen (Mary Warren),Rob DiSario (John Proctor), Lisa Cory (Rebecca Nurse), Peter Connolly.
"I have given you my soul. Why must you have my name?"
The searing plea by John Proctor in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" cries out on behalf of victims whose names were named. Miller dramatized events surrounding the 1692-93 Salem witch trials as an analogy for Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Communist witch-hunt -- still destroying lives as the play premiered on Broadway in 1953.
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