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  1. In my Arthur Miller phase and saw this--rather threw me; an interesting take. I don't necessarily buy into the thesis..but thought-provoking.

    [Financial Times]: Playwright Kimberly Belflower: ‘Has a lot changed since #MeToo? Not really’ By Rebecca Watson

    As the award-winning ‘John Proctor is the Villain’ comes to London, its creator reflects on the power of language to confront trauma

    giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle

    #theCrucible #arthurMiller #plays #johnProctor #kimberlyBelflower

  2. Notes on Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and "A View from the Bridge: " In essence, "The Crucible" asks: What happens when truth threatens God and the state? "A View from the Bridge" asks: What happens when truth threatens masculinity and honor?

    #arthurMiller #theCrucible #AViewfromtheBridge #books #plays #drama

  3. "I believe that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were."

    #arthurMiller #theCrucible #anEnemyOfThePeople #books #plays #bookstodon

    [NYTimes-Archive]: Tragedy and the Common Man. By Arthur Miller, February 27, 1949

    archive.nytimes.com/www.nytime

  4. “DANFORTH: Then explain to me, Mr. Proctor, why you will not let—
    PROCTOR, with a cry of his whole soul: Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”

    Excerpt From
    The Crucible
    The Penguin Arthur Miller Centennial, 1915-2015

    #arthurMiller #theCrucible #books #plays #classics #drama

  5. “DANFORTH, to Proctor: What are you? Proctor is beyond speech in his anger. You are combined with anti-Christ, are you not? I have seen your power; you will not deny it! What say you, Mister?

    HALE: Excellency—

    DANFORTH: I will have nothing from you, Mr. Hale! To Proctor: Will you confess yourself befouled with Hell, or do you keep that black allegiance yet? What say you?

    PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say—I say—God is dead!”

    #arthurMiller #theCrucible #books #plays #classics #drama

  6. Mass hysteria --and just like ICE, DHS.
    “PROCTOR: Giles! What’s the matter?

    GILES: They take my wife.
    Francis Nurse enters.
    GILES: And his Rebecca!

    PROCTOR, to Francis: Rebecca’s in the jail!

    FRANCIS: Aye, Cheever come and take her in his wagon. We’ve only now come from the jail, and they’ll not even let us in to see them.

    ELIZABETH: They’ve surely gone wild now, Mr. Hale!”

    #arthurMiller #theCrucible #books #plays #classics #drama #bookstodon

  7. "A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”

    Excerpt From
    The Crucible
    The Penguin Arthur Miller Centennial, 1915-2015

    #arthurMiller #theCrucible #books #plays #classics #drama #bookstodon

  8. "The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom.

    When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied someday. It is still impossible for man to organize his social life without repressions, and the balance has yet to be struck between order and freedom."

    #arthurMiller #theCrucible #books #plays #classics #drama #bookstodon

  9. Hit Broadway play "John Proctor is the Villain" has extended its run for a third and final time, adding one more week of performances now ending on Sunday, September 7. Universal Pictures has optioned the film rights with Tina Fey as a producer.

    #JohnProctorIsTheVillain #TheCrucible #MeToo #Broadway #Entertainment #Stage

  10. Actor/Singer #EdAmes, best known for his role as Mingo on 1960s TV series #DanielBoone, has died at 95. Ames appeared #OffBroadway (#TheCrucible, #TheFantasticks) and on #Broadway (#Carnival!, #OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest). His TV credits include "McCloud", "Murder, She Wrote", "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "Jake and the Fatman". Ames is also known for one of the most famous TV bloopers of all time, demonstrating his tomahawk-throwing skills on #TheTonightShow. #RIP
    youtu.be/0L5QC9ZJkM8

  11. #Bales2023FilmChallenge March 7: a town meeting for #NationalTownMeetingDay

    Raymond Rouleau's Les sorcières de #Salem (FR/GDR, 1957) – , with a screenplay by Marxist philosopher Jean-Paul #Sartre – is a very early #film adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1953 #TheatrePlay The Crucible. An allegory of #McCarthyism, the play is a (partially dramatised) retelling of the #SalemWitchTrials, a dramatic episode in early US-American history. During several court and town meetings, 200 people were falsely accused of meddling with the Devil; 19 of them were eventually executed.

    Miller himself was accused of un-American activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. Which doesn't mean that #WitchTrials are a thing of the past. As easily one can transplant Puritan religious mass hysteria to 1950s McCarthy anti-socialism, as easy is it applicable to the state of the world today.

    #ArthurMiller #JeanPaulSartre #TheCrucible #DDR #SimoneSignoret #YvesMontand @film

  12. Just seen an amazing production of #TheCrucible from @NationalTheatre Live. It has modern resonance with my time in the @UKLabour and why I left. Hopefully at some point the truth will come out as it did eventually in Salem.