TONIGHT
THE CRUCIBLE
7.00 FOR 7.30pm
Tickets £12.30 on the door.
A classic piece of modern theatre – what a treat!
This evening (Monday, 22nd January at 7 for 7.30pm) the Wootton Courtenay Theatre Club is screening a National Theatre production of Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’. Here we are, in the middle of Exmoor, a mere 240 of us, and we are able to watch one of the most iconic American plays performed by one of the best theatre companies in the world! Ain’t technology wonderful?
Written in 1953, the play is a partially fictional account of the Salem witch trials of the 17th Century. However, Miller has really written an allegory for McCarthyism, when the US government, under Senator McCarthy, persecuted its citizens accused of being communists. Miller himself was questioned in 1956 and charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others who’d attended meetings with him. The play is, though, fundamentally about people: the cult of personality, score settling and trial by rumour. Who needs ‘Yesterday in Parliament’?
The play won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1953 and is really a treat of modern theatre. Don’t miss it if at all possible. Tickets £12.50, payable at the door. Bar opens at 7pm. And the village hall is always nice and warm.
Theatre Club Team
Wootton Courtenay 