In addition to that, Baroletti said, “This show is very hauntingly true, especially as someone who sees it happening in present day. So, we’ve been taking a lot of air to make sure that that’s not the case and focusing on those stories of the women.” “ is very male centered, and I think a lot of the time, productions of it kind of lean into that and kind of ignore the female stories that are being told. “We have the benefit of performing it in 2022,” said junior cast member Colleen DeGennaro, who is playing Elizabeth Proctor. In terms of elevating the show, Baroletti said that a scene was added in the beginning of the play that shows the “witch dance” leading to the whole series of events of the Salem witch trials that follow throughout the play.Ī few of the students that are a part of this production feel that this story was important to tell because its main issues are still relevant today. “The source material already got it right, so what TAP is doing is we’re taking that and we’re elevating it.” “The big part that TAP is bringing to is that we are really trying to understand the characters,” Lauren Baroletti, junior production stage manager, said. “We’re taking our cues from the script and doing it in a way that’s very honest to Arthur Miller, but also very honest to all of us.” “While we are keeping the text and the time period loyal to what’s in the script, we’re also going off of it a little bit to make sure it feels loyal in our bodies, and it feels good the way we’re speaking it,” said Rezza. Cast members on closing night of “The Crucible”.Though TAP’s rendition of “The Crucible” included costumes and scenery that take audience members back to that period, they also prepared to incorporate elements of their own. “The Crucible” won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1953 and was adapted into films in 1957, directed by Raymond Rouleau, and in 1996, directed by Daniel Day Lewis, according to. The story follows the mass hysteria of witchcraft as a group of Puritans from New England uncover the truth of what really happened one night in the woods. Originally published in 1953, playwright Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is a dramatized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the late 1600s. “Here at Sacred Heart, I think ours is going to be very honest to the way Arthur Miller portrayed it.” “We definitely took the more traditional route of the show,” said senior cast member Julianna Rezza who played Abigail Williams.

“The Crucible” performance dates were Nov.

Under the direction of John Flaherty, Sacred Heart University’s Theatre Arts Program (TAP) performed their third production of the semester this weekend. Lights went up on an eerie wood paneled stage as the cast of “The Crucible” prepared to take their first bows in front of an audience in the Edgerton Center.

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