THE CRUCIBLE

Written by Arthur Miller

Passionfool’s 2012 season wraps with a piece by one of the most celebrated American playwrights of the last century.

Arthur Miller’s astounding and searing play, The Crucible, set in the context of the 17th-Century Salem witch trials, pulses with the destructiveness of socially sanctioned violence, the power of hysteria, the blindness of zealots, and the heart of one tortured man trying to find his own goodness. Written in reaction to the McCarthyism of the 1950’s, The Crucible’s depiction of a society unhinged by fear and vengeance remains as relevant today as it did sixty years ago.

Winner 1953 Tony Award for Best New Play

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Performed by Eva Blahut, James Butler, Johnny Bobesich,

John Gerry, Stephen Holmes, Anna Houle, Chirs Kevill,

Chris McCauley, William Meaden, Megan Moorhouse,

Isabelle Nagel, Emma Ratcliffe, Carlyn Rhamey,

Michael Rooyakers, Sarah CE Stanton, Carol Robinson Todd, Saidat Vandenberg, David Wasse, and Jeff Werkmeister

Directed/Designed by Justin Quesnelle

Stage Managed by Sarah Abbott

Costumes Designed by Becky Lenko

November 9-10, 14-17, 21-24 @ 8pm / November 11 @ 2pm

Pay What You Can Previews Nov 7 & 8 @ 8pm

The ARTS Project Theatre - 203 Dundas St

Tickets: $20

Available through The ARTS Project - 519.642.2767

Now entering our fifth season of award winning theatre, Passionfool’s artistic mission has always been to provide each audience patron with powerful, provocative, and fearless performances that will resonate long after leaving the theatre.

Perhaps our most exciting season of plays to date, 2012 includes offerings from Daniel MacIvor with his stand-up-sit-down-comedy-nightmare, House (1991 Chalmers Canadian Play Award); Jason Sherman with his thrilling play inspired by the real life murder of Canadian weapons scientist Gerald Bull, Three In The Back, Two In The Head (1994 Governor General’s Award for Drama); and Arthur Miller with the searing depiction of a society unhinged by fear and vengeance, The Crucible (1953 Tony Award for Best New Play).

Join us for a great year of theatre.

Eva Blahut and Justin Quesnelle

Founders and Artistic Directors