Nowadays, we have a better vocabulary to more accurately describe what transpired between John and Abigail.
“Then whenWoody Allencalled #MeTooa witch hunt, I was like, ‘Oh!
I should rereadThe Crucible.’
Sadie Sink as Shelby and Amalia Yoo as Raelynn in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Credit:Julieta Cervantes
It just really brought certain dynamics to the surface.”
I certainly don’t hateThe Crucible.
And then Arthur Miller himself wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism.
(L to R): Amalia Yoo, Morgan Scott, Sadie Sink, Fina Strazza, Nihar Duvvuri, and Hagan Oliveras in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Julieta Cervantes
So it just felt like such a natural fit to interrogate these things."
“I remember that moment,” the playwright says of Swift’s trial.
I really identified with that.
(L to R): Maggie Kuntz, Morgan Scott, and Amalia Yoo in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Julieta Cervantes
That’s how I was.
I remember that feeling shocking and thrilling."
She can rest assured that no one will be writing offJohn Proctor Is the Villainthis Broadway season.
Sadie Sink as Shelby and Amalia Yoo as Raelynn in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Julieta Cervantes
John Proctor Is the Villainopens today at Broadway’s Booth Theatre.
Sadie Sink as Shelby in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Julieta Cervantes
(L to R): Morgan Scott, Maggie Kuntz, Fina Strazza, Amalia Yoo, Gabriel Ebert, and Molly Griggs in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Julieta Cervantes
(L to R): Maggie Kuntz, Morgan Scott, Fina Strazza, and Amalia Yoo in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Julieta Cervantes
(L to R): Morgan Scott, Fina Strazza, Amalia Yoo, and Maggie Kuntz in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Julieta Cervantes
Hagan Oliveras as Lee and Amalia Yoo as Raelynn in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Julieta Cervantes
Gabriel Ebert as Mr. Smith and Molly Griggs as Ms. Bailey Gallagher in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Julieta Cervantes
Morgan Scott as Nell and Nihar Duvvuri as Mason in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Julieta Cervantes
Nihar Duvvuri as Mason and Hagan Oliveras as Lee in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’.Julieta Cervantes
