5/13/2023 0 Comments Brendan cowell the crucible![]() It underpins delicately an ensemble of powerful performances.Įmphasis on the word ‘ensemble’. The ambient soundscape lingers in the background slowly undulating to ramp up the terror. It is not just the aesthetics of Lyndsey Turner’s production that are carefully crafted. She drills down into individual psychologies of the play’s characters rather than the community wide tension no doubt a well calculated attempt on the director’s part to resist didactic finger wagging, shirking an obvious ‘cancel culture’ interpretation. Turner must be commended for keeping the audience on our toes. The Crucible is a worthwhile production, but it is never more than the sum of its parts. It’s the paranoia that proliferates through the New England community at the heart of the play.īut Lyndsey Turner doesn’t connect the dots. It’s not just the sense of the supernatural that lurks in this darkness. A shivering portentous feeling pervades the Olivier stage throughout The Crucible. Actors hover in from upstage like phantoms. ![]() ![]() The stage is cloaked in an oppressive darkness. ![]()
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