Arthur Miller’s classic play is a dramatised and partially fictionalised story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. But this can and has been played as a metaphor for any authoritarian movement or society in which to speak against the ideology or question its veracity would lead to persecution or demonisation.

This powerful play was performed “in the round” as in previous productions such as The Ferryman, A View From the Bridge, What the Butler Saw and Dealer’s Choice.

Arthur Miller is considered one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th Century and produced some of that country’s most celebrated dramatic plays, including Death of a Salesman, A View From The Bridge and All My Sons for which he was given several Tony awards and a Pulitzer Prize.