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"The Crucible"

By Arthur Miller 

Directed by Amy Fritsche

ÐãÉ«app "The Crucible" 

Description by Dramatist Play Service
In the Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts, a servant girl accuses a farmer’s wife of witchcraft. One accusation spirals into many, uncovering a web of bigotry and deceit that changes their lives forever. 

Rehearsals

Monday-Friday 6-10 p.m. and Sundays all-day 
First Rehearsal on Friday, Aug. 23. 
Tech Week starts Sept. 21.

Performances

Sept. 27-Oct. 2 

Preliminary Auditions

When: 
Monday, Aug. 19 from 6-10 p.m. and Tuesday, Aug. 20 from 6:15-10 p.m. 

Where: 
Wright-Curtis Theatre

Sign-Up: 
Auditions will be scheduled in 3-minute slots.

What to Prepare

One American realism or modern dramatic monologue. (Ideally 90 seconds or less) 

Callbacks: 

Callbacks will be Wednesday, Aug. 21 starting at 6 p.m.. Anyone being called back should receive an email by Tuesday evening. 

Content Information: 

"The Crucible" contains adult content such as slavery, sex and physical violence. If you are not comfortable participating in any of these please mark it on your audition form. 

Intimacy Information: 

The actors playing Proctor and Abigail will have moments of intimacy. The actors playing Proctor and Elizabeth will have moments of intimacy. 

Violence Information: 

The role of Mary will have a threat of violence. The roles of Proctor, Tituba, Elizabeth, Sarah Good, might have staged violence. 

Slavery Information: 

Slavery is a topic in this show, the character of Tituba is enslaved by the character of Parris.

Character Breakdown

We are intentionally opening up the racial breakdown for "The Crucible," please see the following: 

Betty Parris - Any ethnicity 
The young teenage daughter of Reverend Parris, Betty falls mysteriously ill after Reverend Parris finds her dancing in the woods with Abigail and the other young women of Salem. 

Reverend Samuel Parris- Any ethnicity 
A weak, paranoid and suspicious demagogue, Parris instigates the witchcraft panic when he finds his daughter and niece dancing in the woods with several other girls. Parris is continually beset with fears that others conspire against him. 

Tituba- Black / Indigenous / Multiracial / Person Of Color 
Tituba was with the girls when they danced and attempted to conjure the spirits of Ann Putnam's dead children. Tituba is enslaved by Parris. 

Abigail Williams- Any ethnicity 
A seventeen-year-old girl who is the niece of Reverend Parris, Abigail was the Proctors' servant, before Elizabeth fired her for having an affair with John. 

Susanna Walcott - Any ethnicity 
Susanna is one of the girls whom Parris found dancing in the woods; a confidant of Abigail. 

Mrs. Ann Putnam - Any ethnicity 
The wife of Thomas Putnam, Ann suspects that there is some paranormal reason for the stillborn deaths of seven of her children and blames Rebecca Nurse.

Thomas Putnam - Any ethnicity 
One of the wealthiest landowners in Salem, Thomas Putnam is a vindictive, bitter man who holds longstanding grudges against many of the citizens of Salem, including the Nurse family for blocking the appointment of his brother-in-law to the position of minister. 

Mercy Lewis - Any ethnicity 
Mercy Lewis is the Putnam's servant; A sly merciless eighteen-year-old girl, whom Parris finds naked when he spied the girls dancing in the woods. She runs away with Abigail at the end of the play. 

Mary Warren- Any ethnicity 
The eighteen-year-old servant in the Proctor household, Mary is one of the girls found dancing in the woods and is complicit in Abigail Williams' schemes. Although weak and tentative, she challenges the Proctors when they forbid her to go to court. 

John Proctor – Any ethnicity 
A farmer in Salem, who exposes the girls as frauds who are only pretending that there is witchcraft. Proctor is a sharply intelligent man who can easily detect foolishness in others and expose it, but he questions his own moral sense. 

Rebecca Nurse - Any ethnicity 
One of the most noble and well-respected citizens of Salem, this elderly woman is kindly and sane, suggesting that Betty's illness is simply a product of being out too late in the cold. 

Giles Corey- Any ethnicity 
An irascible and combative old resident of Salem, Giles Corey is a comic figure in "The Crucible" whose fate turns tragic when he unwittingly effects his wife's charge for witchcraft when he wonders aloud about the strange books she reads at night. 

Reverend John Hale- Any ethnicity 
A scholar from Beverly, Reverend Hale comes to Salem on Reverend Parris' request to investigate supernatural causes for Betty Parris' suspicious illness and thus instigates the rumors of witchcraft. Hale approaches the situation precisely and intellectually, believing that he can define the supernatural in definitive terms. 

Elizabeth Proctor - Any ethnicity 
The wife of John Proctor, Elizabeth shares with John a similarly strict adherence to justice and moral principles. She is a woman who has great confidence in her morality and in the ability of a person to maintain a sense of righteousness, both internal and external, even when this principle conflicts with strict Christian doctrine. 

Francis Nurse - Any ethnicity 
Francis is the husband of Rebecca Nurse, and a well-respected wealthy landowner in Salem. Francis Nurse joins Giles Corey and John Proctor in their challenge against the court when their respective wives are charged with witchcraft. 

Ezekiel Cheever - Any ethnicity 
Ezekiel is a clerk of the court who serves the arrest warrants to the persons charged with witchcraft. 

John Willard- Any ethnicity 
Willard is one of his deputies until he refuses to carry out any more arrests, at which point he is charged with witchcraft and hanged. 

Judge Hathorne - Any ethnicity 
Hathorne is the judge who presides over the Salem witch trials. He remains largely subservient to Deputy Governor Danforth but applies the same tortured reasoning to charges of witchcraft. 

Deputy Governor Danforth- Any ethnicity 
The deputy governor of Massachusetts presides over the Salem witch trials. He is a stern yet practical man more interested in preserving the dignity and stature of the court than in executing justice or behaving with any sense of fairness. He approaches the witchcraft trials with a strict adherence to rules and laws that obscure any sense of rationality, for under his legal dictates an accusation of witchery automatically entails a conviction. 

Sarah Good - Any ethnicity 
One of the first women charged with witchery by the girls, she is a homeless woman who confesses to witchcraft to save herself and continues the charade with Tituba, comically claiming that Satan will take her and Tituba to Barbados. 

Hopkins- Any ethnicity 
Hopkins is one of the guards at the jail.