The Crucible

The Crucible — Drama

Directed by: Katrin Pärn (guest), Janek Savolainen (Rahvusteater Vanemuine)
Author: Arthur Miller
Set and music design: Katrin Pärn (guest), Janek Savolainen (Rahvusteater Vanemuine)
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Translator: Virve Aruoja
Costume designer: Triinu Pungits (guest)
Lighting designer: Margus Vaigur

Cast: Sten Karpov, Liis Karpov, Saara Nüganen, Märt Avandi (guest), Fatme Helge Leevald, Kristelle Kohv (guest), Miira Vara (guest), Ireen Kennik, Ago Anderson, Kadri Rämmeld, Nikool Abel (guest), Marta-Liisa Õun (guest), Hetlin Kiisler (guest), Kerlin Kiveste (guest), Carmen Mikiver, Meelis Rämmeld, Erik Richard Salumäe (guest), Enn Keerd, Andrus Vaarik, Karl-Andreas Kalmet, Ando Loosaar

Salem, a small town in Massachusetts, America, is small, but passions, injustice and despair are anything but. Nor are the pride and reckless courage of its people in defending their wounded honour. What seems at first a simple situation grows, through blind mass hysteria, into an avalanche that proves impossible to stop. Events call into question and turn upside down our ideas of justice and law, power, loyalty, honesty, love and guilt. Houses are left empty of people, hope grows ever more meagre, and fear lurks everywhere: that someone will point a finger at you next, bringing your life to an end. Yet the sun still rises and shines equally on everyone ...

The Crucible is a drama written in 1953 by American playwright Arthur Miller (1915–2005), an allegory and critique of “witch hunts” carried out at different times. The Salem witch trials of the 1690s, on which the play is based, were every bit as hopeless and terrifying as they appear in the play. Yet mass hysteria and the condemnation and labelling of differing views or ways of life have not disappeared from human society even today.