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The Crucible review " a witch hunt for truth-denying times

by Claire Armitstead

Gielgud theatre, LondonHarnessing horror film conventions, Lyndsey Turner's intelligent revival conjures places where truth is a political inconvenience Seventy years after its premiere, Arthur Miller's great witch-hunt drama comes doubly coiled in history: the first is the moral panic that convulsed a 17th-century New England town into believing that its own people were possessed by the devil. The second is the mid-…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:37am on June 16, 2023