Richard Armitage, Anna Madeley and Samantha Colley to star in Old Vic’s The Crucible

Initial casting for Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has now been announced. Richard Armitage, Anna Madeley and Samantha Colley are to play John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams in Yaёl Farber’s new production at The Old Vic, with previews from Tuesday 24 June. The cast also includes Sarah Niles, Rebecca Saire and Zara White, with further cast to be announced.

Yaёl Farber directs a visceral re-imagining of Arthur Miller’s modern American masterpiece about the Salem witch trials drawing parallels with his experience of McCarthy’s anti-communist investigations in the 1950’s. The Crucible tells the story of one man’s fight to save his identity in a repressive Puritan community where intolerance collides with lust and superstition, fuelling widespread hysteria with tragic results.

The Crucible is the second play in a new season of productions which are presented in-the-round at The Old Vic. Reprising the transformation of The Old Vic’s auditorium into the round,first seen for the award-winning 2008 production of The Norman Conquests, this ambitious project is once more made possible by the generous support of CQS. The season of productions is supported for the fourth consecutive year by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

The Crucible plays at the Old Vic from Tuesday 24th June – Saturday 13th September. Tickets available here.

I'm anxious about dates he might not do. They wouldn't be that cruel would they? @perry3220

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