The Crucible

I did a production of The Crucible a long time ago with Liam Neeson that Arthur Miller was actually involved in. And before I accepted the job, I was offered Goody Proctor and I thought, oh, for fuck's sake, who wants to do The Crucible? Oh, God, you know, ye buckle shoes and ye olde speak. Oh, for God's sake. And I called my dad and I was like, I've been offered Goody Proctor and I don't know, I don't know if I'm, he was like, oh no. He was like, you do that. You must do that. He's like, it is a great play. And it's only because we've all seen nine hour high school productions of that play that it's sort of, you know, it's badly represented. Not that it shouldn't be done there, it should. But, you know, you don't realize how great that play is. And I had no idea what a masterpiece that thing was. A masterpiece.

He Miller wrote a book and he's a fantastic guy and he was ready to go

Arthur Miller ... Death of a Salesman 1949, The Crucible 1953.

In the movie The Crucible, after John Proctor refuses to sign a false confession admitting to witchcraft, thereby signing his own death warrant, right before he's taken off to be hanged, he kisses his wife and he says to her, give them no tears. Show them a stony heart and sink them with it.

I think a lot about the, uh, I've mentioned this comparison before, I think, but the, the play slash movie, the crucible, uh, I see so much similarity between that and our situation today, you know, the Salem witch trials where these people were, uh, forced to, you know, confess and apologize for being witches.

And, uh, there's the great scene at the end there where John, they're trying to get John Proctor to, you know, apologize and confess for being a witch. And, uh, he refuses and he says, is there no good penitence, but it be public.

I think I learned ... about Shakespeare and, ... The Crucible was going to be filmed in Massachusetts.

Primal Fear, The Crucible, which is kind of a courtroom drama when you think about a stage.

The Crucible is a play by the famous American writer Arthur Miller. It's a partially fictional story about the Salem witch trials in colonial New England.

The most important thing was that you pick like a juicy metaphor, something that would really resonate. So I came up with the Crucible. That was my metaphor because I really liked witches and Arthur Miller and theater.

The most important thing was that you pick like a juicy metaphor, something that would really resonate. So I came up with the Crucible. That was my metaphor because I really liked witches and Arthur Miller and theater.

The Crucible is a play by the famous American writer, Arthur Miller. It's a partially fictional story about the Salem witch trials in colonial New England.

Daniel Day-Lewis in The Crucible.

Playwright Arthur Miller made the analogy explicit in his 1953 play, The Crucible.