{"id":446,"date":"2010-08-05T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2025-04-01T00:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:09:01","slug":"the-crucible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/the-crucible\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crucible (May 5-14, 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A Drama by Arthur Miller<\/h2>\n<p>Winner of the 1953 Tony Award for best play, this exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem, Massachusetts, is both a gripping historical play, and a timely parable of our contemporary society. The plays shows how small lies \u2014 children&#8217;s lies \u2014 build and build, until a whole town is aroused and nineteen men and women go to the gallows for being possessed of the Devil. After a servant girl maliciously accuses a farmer&#8217;s young wife of witchcraft, the farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie. The ensuing thrilling, blood-curdling, and terrifying trial scene, with its depiction of bigotry and deceit, hurtles the characters to a sad and ironic conclusion. Miller wrote the play after he was hauled before the House Committee on Un-American Activities on charges of being a Communist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Drama by Arthur Miller Winner of the 1953 Tony Award for best play, this exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem, Massachusetts, is both a gripping historical play, and a timely parable of our contemporary society. The plays shows how small lies \u2014 children&#8217;s lies \u2014 build and build, until a whole town is aroused \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/the-crucible\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,61],"tags":[32,17],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-11","category-all","tag-arthur-miller","tag-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stagecentreproductions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}