Theatre Tulsa to immerse audiences in 'The Crucible'

James D. Watts Jr.

Tulsa World Scene Reporter

It is a time in America where neighbor viewed neighbor with great suspicion, even fear. It is a time when the most fantastic fabrication and baseless accusation was taken as fact. It is a time when anyone determined to take a stand for truth would likely end up on a metaphorical, or literal, scaffold.

It is also a time that recurred with alarming frequency in American life, but its starting point was 1692, when the town of Salem, Massachusetts, believed itself to be overrun by people who conjured up the devil himself and were doing their best to corrupt a community that prided itself on its illusion of piety.

“The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s drama about the Salem “witch trials,” was written in response to a similar period of crisis — the hys