TOMS RIVER, NJ — The Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College will transform into 17th century Salem this month when the OCC Repertory Theater Company presents Arthur Miller’s classic, The Crucible, at the Black Box Theater.
The popular play, which originally premiered in 1953 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, is a fictionalized account of Massachusetts Bay colonists accused of witchcraft in 1692 and the infamous trials that followed. The story focuses on a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant girl who maliciously causes the wife’s arrest. When the farmer brings the girl to court to expose her lies, a monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. Instead of saving his wife, the farmer finds himself also accused of witchcraft, and ultimately condemned along with a host of others.
The Crucible is directed by Paul Chalakani and presented by special arrangement with Dramatist Play Service, Inc.
Past Performance Dates included:
- Friday, April 22 – 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, April 23 – 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, April 24 – 2:00 p.m.
- Friday, April 29 – 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, April 30 – 2:00 and 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, May 1 – 2:00 p.m.
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