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In 1692, Massechuses, the justice system broke apart. 19 People were sentenced to death based on the false accusation of witchery, with the only evidence the shouts of a group of teenage girls. Unconfirmed, unchecked, these girls accused their own accusers of witchcraft, and were their own judicial authority.
This is what the Community high school produced The Crucible, directed by Ann-Marie Roberts and written by Arthur Miller, is about. The main character, John Proctor (played by Jeremy Herron), was a farmer in Salem at the time.
One day he wakes up to the fearful truth: a court was established to convict witches based on what he knows to be a lie.
The watcher would soon fall into the lives of John Proctor and Abigail Williams, played by Rebecca Felckey. As the story winds on, it becomes one question for John Proctor: should I lie, or should I sacrifice my life?
When people watch the play, they would probably ask themselves: how would such a thing be done? As the story folds out, the feeling of terror gets stronger and stronger as the answer becomes obvious: easily.
In the 1950s, the United States was in a cold war with Russia. Communism was considered “un-American”, and people labeled communists were jailed, sometimes without a fair trial. People labeled as communists were not necessarily communists, and arrests could be done based only on suspicion.
The acting in the Community High School production is great, and the story is amazing, But what this play really comes to tell us is one thing: don’t let it happen again.