The Old Vic: The Crucible

Richard Armitage (The Hobbit) leads this stage production of Arthur Miller's 1953 classic American drama, recorded live at the legendary Old Vic in London. In small, tight-knit Salem during the 1690s, personal grievances collide with lust and superstition, fuelling hysteria in a town-wide witch hunt. Miller's parable of McCarthyism attacks the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.