The Blaine High School Drama and Theater Arts Club will open its first show of the school year with a production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 12. The play has been in rehearsals since June, and the club will be putting on the show on two weekends: October 12-14 and October 19-21 at the Black Box Theatre at Blaine High School.
“The Crucible” is a dramatization of the 1692 Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Playwright Arthur Miller wrote the production in 1953 as an allegory for the tense paranoia of McCarthy-era America, and was subsequently questioned by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956. The play is considered a classic of American drama.
In a September 13 Facebook post by the Blaine Drama and Theater Arts Club, excitement is mounting for the first play of the school year.
“Blocking is wrapping up this week,” the post read. “We can’t wait to welcome you to experience this story in just a few short weeks.”
Tickets are $10 at the door.
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