Director Les Ober, who retired to Palm Coast with his wife in after 52 years of directing professional regional and high school theater in northern Connecticut, once got a nod of approval from Miller himself. At the end of the show, he kind of nodded his head and left.
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Though McCarthy and HUAC are often conflated, the senator had no direct involvement with the committee, and it was the latter whose inquires caused the most trouble for Hollywood, leading to blacklists in which more than directors, actors and screenwriters were boycotted by the studios for alleged Communist activities.
Numerous scholarly and popular texts have been written about the Salem witch trials, and observers have proffered all sorts of theories behind the mass hysteria. Those theories begin, of course, with the historically documented evidence that the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts, including minister Samuel Parris, indeed feared, to various degrees, that the devil and his minions the witches preyed upon innocent humans. Crrucible
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Pressured by Parris, the girls said they had been bewitched by Tituba and two other women of the community. More than people were accused and prosecuted at hearings between February and May Thirty were found guilty, and 14 women and five men were executed by hanging, while one man who refused to plead guilty or innocent was pressed to death, and at least five people died in jail.
It was Miller who decided to make her 17, 18 years old. Then of course here had to have a little sex to sell it on Broadway, so he has this affair between John Proctor and Abigail going on.
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That is not in the books, that is not historical — that is poetic license Miller took. Abigail is a screwed-up young girl. We are doing a very modern, contemporary approach on how to look at this play. Maybe not. But she can go from angry to a little girl to being very seductive literally with the snap of a line.
Unfortunately, it was a selfish thing to do, but when you think back on that timeframe, she made the choice that was best for herself. These people of Salem were so oppressed, and speaking out against the church was blasphemous.
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It became a free-for-all, almost like social media these days. So, we still do kind of live in a world where Salem witch trials still happen to Trilas. April andand 3 p. April 11 and Tickets are available at crtpalmcoast. Patrons are expected to wear masks.]
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