It started slowly which emphasised the power of the leaders and their use of that power over the community. The actors slowly built up the tensions demonstrating through the judge the fears the leaders had of losing their power if they showed compassion and sense.
Great stage sets and music that complemented the atmosphere. Humour was subtle and effective.
I thoroughly enjoyed the performance.Read more →
A near-perfect adaptation. Superb. I only wish I'd had a better seat.Read more →
Craig Bird
Superbly staged and acted, The Crucible is a story which continues to have relevance in a society where it is beholden in the accused to prove their innocence rather than have their guilt proven. The way characters appear from the dark stage rear gives an eerie quality and the whole production is wrapped in a moody brooding claustrophobic atmosphere. Theatre drama at its best.Read more →
Connaly Akiyama
A beautiful appeal to integrity,
An extraordinary cast.
He have his goodness now.Read more →
This play should be worth a solid 6 stars. The staging is simply breath taking on top of a very solid performance from all actors. Tension is always quite high yet it keeps on getting higher. I didn't want it to end. This is a play you have to see at the national theatre, I think the West end version won't be able to be as visually stunning.Read more →
David Roy
Classic play in a wonderful setting. The ensemble cast was uniformly excellent with n ‘star turns’ to distract. The capacity audience was rapt from start to finish, even if the front row got a little wet from the (effective but a little superfluous) rain curtain.Read more →
Bilkisu Zhang
Good version of a classic play. It’s nothing surprising or innovative but the atmosphere was good and I like the choice of putting some absurdity scenes at the back. This play will be relevant forever at any place in any society, this is the disgrace of humanity. You can’t help feeling cracked when the ‘leave me my name’ plead comes out, it represented the intellectuals like Miller himself, but it also stared into every soul on the earth, questioned our ‘good nature’ and meaning of existence.Read more →
Freddie Shere
Visually stunning and the story’s power has not diminished.Read more →
(((Terry Plimmer)))
Powerful, visually and aurally striking.Read more →