Everything on the set will be black and white including the set design and costumes. The play highlights the Puritan way of looking at the world as black and white or right and wrong. “I’m hoping it makes audience members stop and figure out what the play is about.”īased on the Salem witch trials, the play emphasizes the danger a fear-based society can create and its potential to destroy lives. “There is always an awareness that you are watching a play or a performance with the masks,” Morgan said. These masks help the actors develop their characters from the outside in and create a rare experience for the audience to become more involved in the story and message than with the individual characters. Under the direction of David Morgan, the play will be stylistically unique and will include the use of character masks. This production won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play and is regarded as a central work in the canon of American drama.
8 in the Margetts Theatre of the Harris Fine Arts Center at BYU.
The BYU Department of Theatre and Media Arts presents The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
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