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Originally published in 1953 as an allegory for McCarthyism, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible<\/em> has never not been timely. But as American politics come to a head this election season, and even the idea of \u201ccivility\u201d with one\u2019s political opposition begins to seem trite in the face of anti-democratic views becoming explicitly mainstream, The Crucible<\/em> at Dominion Stage, under Danni Guy\u2019s direction, serves as a crucial reminder that no matter where this darkest timeline leads us, fear is the enemy of progress. The performances in this production are truly stellar and deserve as many awards as there are for community theater in the DC metropolitan area.<\/p>\n

The Crucible <\/em>is an only partially fictionalized adaptation of the events of the 1692\u20131693 Salem witch trials. In the play, a community of colonial Americans disintegrates following mass hysteria around the possibility of any members within it practicing witchcraft and association with the devil. As the situation spirals, despite the evolving views and developing compassion of Reverend John Hale, crimes worthy of suspicion begin to extend to ultimately any slight deviations from extreme purity in the eyes of the community\u2019s religious authorities. Suspicion, then, leads to individuals being forced to prove themselves innocent through extreme suffering \u2014 including the year-long imprisonment of Elizabeth Proctor, protagonist John Proctor\u2019s pregnant wife. Even she, and any other Salem innocents, are not safe. It is ultimately John Proctor\u2019s refusal to commit to a false confession, which would have saved him in the eyes of the Salem legislature, that leads to his death.<\/p>\n

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Anna Mae Murphy as Abigail Williams in \u2018The Crucible.\u2019 Photo by Matthew Randall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And by the way, John and Elizabeth Proctor were real people<\/a>, and they were indeed hung and jailed respectively following witchcraft accusations. Reverend John Hale also was a Puritan pastor who was an initial believer<\/a> in the justice of the trials, but by the end of 1692 had come to different conclusions.<\/p>\n

The Crucible<\/em> even resulted in the U.S. House of Representatives\u2019 Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaing Miller. It ultimately found him guilty of contempt of Congress and sentenced him to a fine, time in prison, and a place on the Hollywood blacklist, not to mention an inability to get a U.S. passport. Indeed, Miller\u2019s play was almost hilariously prescient for his time\u2013and of course, fear will be a driving force of human behavior for as long as we exist.<\/p>\n

The Dominion Stage<\/em> production is artfully stripped down through Alex Bryce\u2019s set design, with a set that rotates entirely on and off the stage throughout the performance except one intricate chair. It is used by both the play\u2019s religious figures and legal authorities as a pointed symbol of Salem\u2019s conflation of church and state. The chair\u2019s visual design does not explicitly designate it as a judge\u2019s chair or a religious authority\u2019s chair that the other then uses \u2014 don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s not that on the nose. It is simply outwardly beautiful, and effective at capturing attention, but is used for acts of profound cruelty \u2014 which adds new dimensions of meaning.<\/p>\n

The cast is stellar, raising the bar for excellence in nonprofessional theater. As Rev. John Hale, Shakil Azizi is masterful and utterly captivating. I recently had the pleasure of seeing<\/a> him flaunt his top-tier musical comedy chops as a Looney Tunes villain type in a production of The Drowsy Chaperone<\/em> at Workhouse Arts Center; I was awed to now see him execute one of the most grave, nuanced, and demanding roles in American drama so flawlessly and captivatingly here. The program notes that he\u2019s a court reporter in the DC area: whatever they do to you in law school apparently makes you a triple-threat thespian.<\/p>\n

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TOP LEFT: Clare Shannon as Betty Parris, Lady’Jordan Matthews-Mason as Mary Warren, Anna Mae Murphy as Abigail Williams; TOP RIGHT: Matthew J. Murray as John Proctor, Lady’Jordan Matthews-Mason as Mary Warren, Robert Heinly as Giles Corey, Shakil Azizi as Rev. John Hale; ABOVE LEFT: Michael McCarthy as Thomas Putman, Jen Ware as Susanna Walcott, Jacob Reese as Rev. Samuel Parris, Jacqueline Youm as Tituba, Jenn Robinson as Anne Putnam; ABOVE RIGHT: Jen Ware as Susanna Walcott, Anna Mae Murphy as Abigail Williams, Jenn Robinson as Sarah Goode, Clare Shannon as Betty Parris, in \u2018The Crucible.\u2019 Photos by Matthew Randall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stuart Fischer also delivers one of the best performances in any medium that I\u2019ve seen as Governor Danforth in all his casual, divinely-rationalized cruelty. He has a conversational style of line delivery that makes him uniquely convincing and human \u2014 this tool becomes a lethal weapon in a role about humanity\u2019s capacity for evil. When Fischer appeared to stumble over his lines in a handful of instances, it only made his performance more believable. Even more vindicatingly, he is a man who appears genuinely devoted to God and Christian causes, pointing to the dangers of unexamined belief across gods, divine and otherwise.<\/p>\n

Another leading performance in this production is Malerie Goodman\u2019s as John Proctor\u2019s wife Elizabeth. She is utterly convincing as a woman both skeptical of her husband\u2019s fidelity and emotionally weathered by a society that degrades and disregards her; in her final scene, as she has been imprisoned and kept in solitary confinement while pregnant, she is difficult to behold on stage \u2014 and that\u2019s a sign of good theater. Rebecca J. Harris\u2019s hair and makeup work for Elizabeth in this moment fully communicates her anguish to tear-jerking effect.<\/p>\n

In her performance as Mary Warren, the Proctor family\u2019s maid, Lady\u2019Jordan Matthews-Mason invites profound sympathy while being simultaneously eerie \u2014 nothing like a wide-eyed blank stare with real tears to invite fear, pity, and just a little terror. Further, Jacqueline Youm delivers in the difficult role of Tituba, the enslaved woman owned by the Parris family, who is framed for witchcraft and is ultimately driven insane by the conditions of her imprisonment. Her raw performance is also unsettling and uncomfortable to behold \u2014 and offers an important reminder of how rampant fear in a society consistently hurts its most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Anna Mae Murphy creates a terrifying and truly despicable villain in Abigail Williams. She is one of the chief false accusers of her neighbors and subsequent architects of the trials, seeming to take joy in them as she sways the will of the community and legal system to suit who she wants suspected and killed. Murphy\u2019s performance is utterly devastating; Williams delivers an otherworldly performance as this character whose evil knows no bounds. If any bones are to be thrown to Governor Danforth, at least he thinks he\u2019s doing right by God \u2014 Abigail does not seek to justify her actions.<\/p>\n

While canonically a 12-year-old girl, Murphy portrays Abigail as a grown woman\u00a0\u2014 thank goodness, given that for a few brief seconds the audience sees her in the complete nude after she attempts the seduction of John Proctor. If you are attending and would rather not see this, the further to audience-right you sit, the less will be visible.<\/p>\n

As John Proctor, Matthew J. Murray is excellent, especially in his moments of deep emotion. Murray\u2019s eruptions are delivered with convincing, well-timed intensity and the air of sincerity, which is a rare gift among performers. Given the naturalness of other performances on stage \u2014 particularly the show\u2019s villains \u2014 Murray\u2019s polished style of delivery makes his performance less immersive and believable. To communicate the harm of his affair with Abigail, more clear chemistry with his wife Elizabeth and\/or Abigail, as well as a more conversational delivery approach would bolster his performance. In any other show, Murray\u2019s performance would be a standout \u2014 he is simply surrounded by some of the best I\u2019ve seen in community or professional theater, and his role as the protagonist demands something of an exceptional performance among exceptional performances. He has something of an impossible task on his hands, given how much harder it is to communicate everymanness opposite cruelty with equal theatrical power.<\/p>\n

The Dominion Stage\u2019s Crucible<\/em> appears to be a definitive production of this play for the DC area. With only the exception of Abigail, every character is simply devoted to genuine, theoretically admirable beliefs \u2014 even their goals of ridding their community of threats to themselves and their families are not unempathetic. It is how they let fear take these goals to catastrophic extremes in misguided staunchness \u2014 staunchness that some might deem praiseworthy \u2014 that makes The Crucible<\/em> so timelessly devastating.<\/p>\n

Running Time: <\/strong>Approximately two hours and 15 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission.<\/p>\n

The Crucible<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>plays through August 24, 2024 (Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 pm), presented by Dominion Stage<\/a>, performing at Theatre on the Run
\n3700 S Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington, VA. Tickets are general admission and cost $25 (online coupon code \u201cPROCTOR5\u201d saves $5) and may be purchased online.<\/strong><\/a> The online box office closes at 4:30 pm the day of performance, but a limited number of full-price tickets MAY<\/em> be available at the door prior to curtain. Come early to secure a seat.<\/p>\n

The playbill for The Crucible<\/em>\u00a0is online here.<\/a><\/p>\n

COVID Policy: <\/strong>Masks are optional.<\/p>\n

PRODUCTION TEAM
\nExecutive Producer: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey
\nDirector\/Producer: Danni Guy
\nMusic Arranger: David Weinraub
\nStage Manager: Lauren Markovich
\nLighting Design: Jeff Auerbach & Kimberly Crago
\nSet Design: Alex Bryce
\nProps and Set Dressing: Katy Jones-Powe
\nCostume Design: Kit Sibley and Jean Schlichting
\nHair & Makeup Design: Rebecca Harris
\nGraphic Design: Brittany Washington<\/p>\n

CAST
\nJOHN PROCTOR: Matthew J. Murray
\nELIZABETH PROCTOR: Malerie Goodman
\nABIGAIL WILLIAMS: Anna Mae Murphy
\nMARY WARREN: Lady’ Jordan Matthews-Mason
\nGILES COREY: Robert Heinly
\nREBECCA NURSE: Margaret McCabe Janicki
\nREV. SAMUEL PARRIS: Jacob Reese
\nREV. JOHN HALE: Shakil Azizi
\nBETTY PARRIS: Clare Shannon
\nTITUBA\/MARTHA COREY: Jacqueline Youm
\nSUSANNA WALCOTT: Jen Ware
\nMERCY LEWIS: Raeanna Nicole Larson
\nANNE PUTNAM\/SARAH GOODE: Jenn Robinson
\nFRANCIS NURSE: Ned Kieloch
\nEZEKIEL CHEEVERS: Michael Angeloni
\nTHOMAS PUTNAM\/JOHN WILLARD: Michael McCarthy
\nJUDGE HAWTHORNE: Cameron McBride
\nGOVERNOR DANFORTH: Stuart Fischer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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