Performances
- 2025 Nov 7 Friday 7:30 PM
- 2025 Nov 8 Saturday 7:30 PM
- 2025 Nov 9 Sunday 2:00 PM
- 2025 Nov 13 Thursday 11:00 AM
- 2025 Nov 14 Friday 7:30 PM
- 2025 Nov 15 Saturday 7:30 PM
- 2025 Nov 16 Sunday 2:00 PM
Auditions
- 2025 Jul 23 Wednesday
- 2025 Jul 24 Thursday
What To Know About This Production
UP's production of "The Crucible" is no high school play. These are characters with everything on the line and who go in completely to get what they want. There is much high energy scene work and, in some cases, physical work involved. We'll also spend some time looking at how this play relates to things going on in society today to inform the performances and create a more in-depth story.
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award and inspired by the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s, Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" takes audiences back to a fictionalized account of the Salem, Massachusetts witch trials that took place during the years 1692 and 1693. It is a tale of lies, revenge and mass hysteria as the citizens of Salem turn against each other and as gossip becomes fact, lies become truth and innocence becomes guilt. When a servant girl accuses a farmer’s wife of witchcraft, one accusation spirals into many, uncovering a web of bigotry and deceit that changes their lives forever. Miller explores how public hysteria combined with fear can destroy people’s lives. One of the most produced plays since its 1953 debut, "The Crucible" is both a gripping historical drama and an evergreen parable of contemporary society.
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Characters
- John Proctor 28-45, Male – A local farmer who lives just outside town and the protagonist; Elizabeth Proctor’s husband. A stern, harsh-tongued man, John hates hypocrisy. His hidden sin—his affair with Abigail Williams—proves his downfall. When the hysteria begins, he hesitates to expose Abigail as a fraud because he worries that his secret will be revealed and his good name ruined.
- Abigail Williams 16-25 (playing 17), Female – Reverend Parris’s niece and the antagonist. Abigail was once the servant for the Proctor household, but Elizabeth Proctor fired her after discovering that Abigail had an affair with her husband, John. Smart, wily, a good liar, and vindictive when crossed, she uses her charismatic influence over the girls to gain power to supplant Elizabeth so she and John can marry.
- Elizabeth Proctor 25-40, Female – John Proctor’s wife. Elizabeth fired Abigail with whom her husband was having an affair. Elizabeth is supremely virtuous, but often cold, especially to John whom she can’t forgive.
- Reverend Samuel Parris 35-55, Male – Minister of Salem’s church, disliked by many residents because of his power-hungry, greedy, and strong personality. He is more concerned about his reputation than the well-being of his sick daughter Betty. He is paranoid of being thrown out of Salem for having a witch as a daughter.
- Reverend John Hale 25-40, Male – A young minister, a committed Christian nearing forty, reputed to be an expert on witchcraft called in to Salem to examine Parris’s daughter. His critical mind and intelligence save him from falling into blind fervor. His arrival sets the hysteria in motion, although he later regrets his actions and attempts to save the lives of those accused, even begging some—like John Proctor—to lie and confess in order to live.
- Mary Warren 16-28 (plays 17), Female – A timid servant in the Proctor household and a member of Abigail’s group of girls. Easily influenced by those around her, she tries unsuccessfully to expose the hoax, but is thwarted by Abigail and the other girls. In order to save herself from their accusations of witchcraft, Mary ultimately recants her confession and turns on John Proctor.
- Judge George Danforth 40-65, Male – Deputy Governor of Massachusetts and presiding judge at the witch trials. Honest, scrupulous and the ultimate authority, at least in his own mind, Danforth is convinced that he is doing right in rooting out witchcraft.
- Judge Hathorn 40-65, Male – A judge who presides, along with Danforth, over the witch trials. Cold, ignorant and antagonistic, he denies any possible explanation other than witchcraft. Considered the “hanging judge” of the era.
- Tituba THIS ROLE HAS BEEN CAST. 20-50, Female, woman of color – Reverend Parris’s slave from Barbados. Tituba agrees to perform voodoo at Abigail’s request and tries to raise the spirits of Ann Putnam’s dead children. In the first scene she is turned in as a witch by Abigail and under duress accuses four other Salem women. By the end she is troubled to mental instability, haunted by hallucinations and hysteria.
- Giles Corey 60-80 (playing the upper end), Male – An elderly but feisty farmer in Salem, famous for his tendency to file lawsuits and friend of John Proctor. After Giles’s wife, Martha, is accused of witchcraft, he is held in contempt of court and pressed to death with large stones. In spite of this torture, he refuses to plea (allowing his children to retain ownership of their property) and he refuses to accuse anyone else.
- Rebecca Nurse 45-75 (playing the upper end), Female – Francis Nurse’s wife. Rebecca is a wise, sensible, and upright woman, pillar of the community, held in highest regard by most of the Salem community. Jealous of Nurse’s many children, the Putnams accuse her of witchcraft and, not only does she refuse to confess, but also she voices her opposition to the idea of witchcraft and falls victim to the hysteria.
- Francis Nurse 50-70, Male – A wealthy, influential man in Salem. Nurse is well respected by most people in Salem, but is an enemy of Thomas Putnam and his wife.
- Thomas Putnam 35-60, Male – A wealthy, influential citizen of Salem, Putnam holds a grudge against Francis Nurse for preventing Putnam’s brother-in-law from being elected to the office of minister. He uses the witch trials to increase his own wealth by accusing people of witchcraft and then buying up their land.
- Ann Putnam 35-60, Female – Thomas Putnam’s wife, has given birth to eight children, but only Ruth Putnam survived. The other seven died before they were a day old, and Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means.
- Betty Parris 13-25 (playing the younger end), Female, requires physicality – Reverend Parris’s daughter. Betty falls into a strange stupor after Parris catches her and the girls dancing in the forest with Tituba.
- Ezekiel Cheever 25-60, Male – An astute but morally weak man from Salem who acts as the witch trials’ court clerk. This upright friend to most residents of Salem quickly turns on former friends and those accused of witchcraft, handling their arrests.
- Mercy Lewis 16-28, Female (playing 16-18) – Servant to the Putnams, Mercy is a “sly, merciless girl” She proves to be Abigail’s closest friend, sticking by her to the end.
- John Willard
- Susanna Walcott 16-28 (playing 16), Female – Susanna is a nervous and hasty girl, younger than Abigail. She works for Dr. Griggs. She participates in the ritual in the woods with Tituba.
- Sarah Good 20-30, Female - one of the first to be accused of witchcraft, she is poor and often rejected from society. Pregnant at her trial, she gives birth in jail but the baby dies. The ordeal has affected her to the point of mental instability. She appears only briefly in the last scene.
- Puritan girl late teens/young adults
Cast
- Bj Williams John Proctor
- Claudia Canuto Abigail Williams
- Anna Quinn Elizabeth Proctor
- Peter Ilgenfritz Reverend Samuel Parris
- Toby Hall Reverend John Hale
- Makenna Allen Mary Warren
- Mark Sickler Judge George Danforth
- TJ Bartlett Judge Hathorn
- Rosa Van Wie Tituba
- Dennis MacKay Giles Corey
- Jennifer Donovan Rebecca Nurse
- Erik Volk Francis Nurse
- JAMES EDWARDS Thomas Putnam
- Kristjar Nielson Ann Putnam
- BB Doherty Betty Parris
- Scott Black Ezekiel Cheever
- Josie Cromer Mercy Lewis
- Charles King John Willard
- Brooke Lavoie Susanna Walcott
- Kathleen Gallagher Sarah Good
- Zoë Ghanooni Puritan girls
Crew
- Andrew Lidestri Director
- Lynne M Grigelevich Production Manager
- Alexander MacKinnon Stage Manager
- TBD Set Design
- George Mitchell Technical Director (coord & Mech)
- TBD Technical Director (Construction)
- TBD Lighting Design
- Zach Brown Sound Design
- TBD Scenic Charge
- Jennifer Donovan Props Master
- TBD Costume Design
- Cynthia Wissocki Costume Shop
- Kassidy Moore Assistant Costume Design
- Sabrina Hall Assistant Costume Design
- Michael Lamontagne Light Board Op
- Kristjar Nielson Dramaturg
- Mallory Blanchard Marketing