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

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.

In the 1950s Red Scare, communists and their sympathizers ... myself to what it must have been like for him when he was in the crucible, living through the most trying experience of his life ...

Risen’s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America, draws on newly declassified documents to tell these overlooked stories and paint a lively portrait of the ...

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 ...

It's fire and brimstone time at the Virginia Theater, where "The Crucible" is thundering across ... a fervent point to make in 1953, when the Red Scare was gaining dangerous momentum.