The Crucible
National Theatre
Cast & Crew
Cast
Abigail Williams | Sarah Miles |
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Betty Parris | Janina Faye |
Deputy | Robert Russell |
Deputy-Governor Danforth | Anthony Nicholls |
Deputy; T/O Marshal Herrick | Michael Gambon |
Ezekiel Cheever | Michael Turner |
Francis Nurse | Keith Marsh |
Giles Corey | Frank Finlay |
Goodwife Anne Putnam | Barbara Hicks |
Goodwife Elizabeth Proctor | Joyce Redman |
Goodwife Rebecca Nurse | Wynne Clark |
John Proctor | Colin Blakely |
Judge Hathorne; U/S Danforth | Peter Cellier |
Marshal Herrick | James Mellor |
Mary Warren | Jeanne Hepple |
Mercy Lewis; T/O Mary Warren | Sheila Reid |
Reverend John Hale | Robert Lang |
Reverend Samuel Parris | Kenneth Mackintosh |
Susanna Walcott | Janie Booth |
T/O Abigail Williams | Louise Purnell |
T/O Deputy | David Hargreaves |
T/O Deputy | Terence Knapp |
T/O Mercy Lewis | Petronella Barker |
Thomas Putnam | Trevor Martin |
Tituba | Pearl Prescod |
U/S Judge Hathorne | Edward Hardwicke |
Crew | |
Assistant director | Sunny Amey |
Designer | Michael Annals |
Director | Laurence Olivier |
Lighting designer | Brian Freeland |
Photographer | Angus McBean |
Photographs
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Observations
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Additional photographs by Chris Arthur
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In his autobiography Timebends, Arthur Miller mentions how his visit to Salem to see the town records for 1692, and studying the words of interrogation, helped Lawrence Olivier with this production. It was about the choice of dialect that would be as close to the original speech as possible. Miller’s commented that while reading the records he thought it was ‘a gnarled way of speaking’. Miller and Olivier corresponded, and Olivier ‘After much research he decided on a Northumberland dialect, which indeed is spoken through clenched jaws.’ (Quotes from: Arthur Miller, Timebends: A Life, published by Bloomsbury in 2012, page 336)
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