Films rebuking the Red Scare have been a cottage industry since ... In 1996, Arthur Miller’s 1953 play “The Crucible,” which rehashed the Salem witch trials to condemn those of its day ...

This post-WWII time in history became known as the Red Scare, due to the fear that communism ... and wrote his acclaimed play “The Crucible” as a metaphor for the hearings.

Ola Ince directs Arthur Miller’s bombastic allegorical tragedy as if it was a storyline in ‘The Archers’ – with surprisingly ...

The production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” an examination of both the Salem Witch Trials and an allegory for the dangers of McCarthyism during the Red Scare of the 1950s, premiered Friday. Its ...

His 1953 play, The Crucible, used the Salem witch trials as a metaphor for the Red Scare, exposing the dangers of mass hysteria and false accusations. While the play was initially met with mixed ...

Miller wrote it as a commentary on the Red Scare of the early 1950's in the ... by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. But THE CRUCIBLE becomes timeless in its depiction of the pursuit of ...

IN THE CRUCIBLE, Arthur Miller used the Salem witch trials of the 17th century to depict the Red Scare he and others experienced in the 1950s. The fright felt by the American public in the ’50s ...