Ivo van Hove’s production – set in a gloomy classroom and starring Ben Whishaw and Saoirse Ronan – doesn’t reach the highs of his version of A View from the Bridge and feels overly reliant on theatrical tricksGirls are levitating,demons are materializing, a preternatural wind is blowing, and a wolf (or a dog that looks very much like one) is prowling the stage of the Walter Kerr Theatre. Uncanniness is everywhere in Ivo van Hove’s probing yet flawed revival of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible,the 1953 historical drama that both investigated the Salem witch trials of centuries before and allegorized the communist witch-hunts of Miller’s own day.
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Source: theguardian.com