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Abigail Williams (Winona Ryder) and a number of her teenaged female friends are screwing around in the woods one night (typical teenage rebellion kind of stuff) when they are discovered and charged as witches. It's a shame I waited this long to see it! For a basic plot summary, "The Crucible" is a story set during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. What I quickly discovered, however, is that Arthur Miller's tale here is truly one for the ages. That's probably the reason why it took me so long to actually see this version of "The Crucible", as I thought of it as "old" or "not exciting enough".

“A deeply illuminating dramatisation of the unending battle between reason and madness.Sometimes, movies that are designated as "classic" suffer from a strange sort of reverse- discrimination. “The Crucible suddenly seems like a play whose time has come again… with its portrayal of religious extremism and its impact on the state.” Daily Telegraph

A rare opportunity to see an ensemble of twenty superb actors bring to life this feverishly exciting moral thriller that pits personal responsibility against public good. Originally conceived as a response to the McCarthy anti-communist trials of the 1950’s the play now reads as a stark warning about the dangers of irrational belief.

A chain of events is set in place in which the innocent are implicated by the hysteria and fear that permeate their whole community. When the young girls of a closed religious sect are discovered experimenting with devil-worship in the woods they try to save themselves by denouncing neighbours as witches and satanists. Without a doubt one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, takes on an unnerving air of topicality in our terrorist age.