We are pleased to announce open auditions for our March 2026 production of The Crucible.
Visit shakespeare70.org/auditions to view the full audition notice and access the sign-up form.
PERFORMANCES
March 25-29, 2026, at the Don Evans Black Box Theater (Ewing, NJ)
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
At the time of its premiere, Miller’s play served as an allegorical indictment of McCarthy-era, anti-communist paranoia. Our production extends that lineage, drawing a direct line from the mass hysteria of 17th-century Salem to today’s post-truth culture, where conspiracy trumps fact and purity-politics drive outrage; where truth is negotiable and accusation is authority.
The text depicts a world in which fear and the seductive ease of scapegoating become the currency through which power is consolidated, particularly through the centuries-old patriarchal dominance that demands absolute control, invariably to the detriment of women.
Our *Crucible* aims to use this premise as a launchpad, wherein we’ll examine a society—convinced of and beset by its own righteousness—on the brink of collapse, devouring itself from the inside out. Our goal is to present the play not as a dusty relic of history, but as a mirror held up to an America actively in the throes of a weaponized, moral panic; a frenetic, cautionary tale of a nation inching toward the edge where fear transcends law, doubt becomes treason, and justice curdles into zealotry.
SEEKING
17-20 actors. All roles are non-Equity and unpaid. Visit shakespeare70.org/auditions to see the full character breakdown.
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