Arthur Miller’s witch trials drama ‘The Crucible’ gets a compelling, new turn by Oakland Theater Project.
All too timely when it premiered in 1953, “The Crucible” is a fascinating cultural artifact today. Arthur Miller’s play is ostensibly about the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, but really an allegory for the then-current anti-Communist purges of the 1950s.
Oakland Theater Project’s new production of “The Crucible” neither sidesteps these issues nor focuses on them, but instead subtly subverts them. That begins in the casting. All the performers are women, girls or nonbinary, and roughly a third of the cast is Black, as opposed to just Tituba in traditional productions.
Martha Powell’s costumes are a severe, almost fetishy modern twist on Puritan garb. Everyone is in black and white except Tituba in red and protagonist John Proctor in more casual earth tones. Ije Success is grippingly defiant and unflinching as Abigail Williams, the first and fiercest of the girls to deflect blame by pointing the finger at her neighbors for bewitching her. Romeo Channer is sympathetically conflicted as fellow accuser Mary Warren, who gets caught up in the moment and wants to be part of wielding that power but feels guilty about it.
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