![]() ![]() It was written in a time of hysteria, of witch hunting by Senator Joseph R. The Crucible, says the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Death of a Salesman and A View From the Bridge, became his most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. The production stars Liam Neeson and Laura Linney and is directed by Sir Richard Eyre. Now The Crucible is back on Broadway at the Virginia Theatre, nearly 50 years after winning the Tony Award in 1953 as the best play of the season. "The threat of this kind of hysteria is never really gone. "The play is about hysteria, public mass hysteria, and the attempts by certain interested parties to exploit that hysteria for their own profit," says the renowned playwright, the recipient in November 2001 of the National Book Foundation's medal for distinguished contribution to American literature. Arthur Miller, 86 years old last October, is speaking about The Crucible, his classic play about the witchcraft trials in 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts. ![]()
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