Drama club presents Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’
Published 8:46 am Thursday, May 9, 2019
- Partial cast for the show is pictured, from left, front row, Liana Friedel, Dakota Flood, Ressa Smith, Eve Moxley, Julianna Crawford, Kaitlyn Hucks, Marissa Holman; back row, Jeffrey Stanley, Samantha Poole, Emma Auten, Joey Steger, Leah Moxley, Brianna Chapman and Erin Webber.
Buckingham County High School drama students performed what was considered to be the drama program’s longest and most intricate play that its members have undertaken.
Drama students held performances of “The Crucible” on Saturday, April 27, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 28, at 3 p.m.
The students worked long hours to capture the true nature of the complex characters Arthur Miller created, according to a release from the school. The play is historical fiction based on the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts in 1692. Most of the characters in the play were real people who suffered terribly through the horrific events that unfolded.
Unlike the plays that the students have presented over the past three years, “The Crucible” is a true drama, the release cited. Its protagonist, John Proctor, played by senior Joey Steger, is a classic tragic hero. The story centers around Proctor’s one indiscretion. The ramifications of his actions spiral out of his, and the community’s, control.
