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WHEN:
MARCH 12 – APRIL 1
WHERE:
THE CONNELLY THEATER
220 EAST 4TH STREET
NEW YORK NY 10009
CAST:
Brittany K. Allen, Sharlene Cruz, Tavi Gevinson, and Susannah Perkins.
CREATIVE TEAM:
Stage management by Esti Bernstein, assistant stage management by Kelly Merritt; Set design by Cate McCrea; lighting design by Isabella Byrd; costume design by Phuong Nguyen; sound design by Lee Kinney; properties design by Buffy Cardoza; fight and intimacy coordination by Sean Chin. Additional design by Cate McCrea.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
"...THE GOOD JOHN PROCTOR is a new look at the lead-up to the Salem Witch Trials, imagining the inner lives of the real girls at the center of the trials as they hurtle toward the events dramatized in Arthur Miller’s THE CRUCIBLE. Abigail Warren, age eleven, and Betty Parris, age nine and a half, are best friends. There’s also Mercy Lewis, the child alcoholic, and Mary Warren, who shakes for no reason. The girls churn butter, play with poppets, and listen to The Woods at night. But their world is turned upside-down when Abigail starts to work for a farmer named John Proctor. Playwright Talene Monahon brings these familiar names to new life as the young women of Salem navigate the nature of Satan and the bloody trials of adolescence..."