Arthur Miller's The Crucible directed by Julianne Boyd - a Triumph for the Barrington Stage Company, by Michael Miller

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Starla Benford, Jessica Griffin and Fletcher McTaggart in the Crucible. Photo Kevin Sprague.


The Crucible

By Arthur Miller
Directed by Julianne Boyd
October 6, 2010 - October 24, 2010

Cast:

Glenn Barrett
Starla Benford
Edward Cating
Rosalind Cramer
Maggie Donnelly
Jessica Griffin
Betsy Hogg
Christopher Innvar
Jeffrey Kent
Caroline Mack
Fletcher McTaggart
Matt Neely
Peter Samuel
Gabrielle Smachetti
Gordon Stanley
Kim Stauffer
Peggy Pharr Wilson
Robert Zukerman

Creative Team:

Julianne Boyd - Director
David M. Barber
Brad Berridge
Kristina Lucka
Renee Lutz
Scott Pinkney
Kristina Sneshkoff

The Barrington Stage Company excels in several different areas — modern classics, musicals, and brainy little contemporary plays — and is plagued only by one persistent flaw, the policy of using excessive amplification even in the diminutive Stage 2 theatre. Fortunately, that was absent in this performance, and all I have to talk about is theatre.

Read the full review on the Berkshire Review, an international journal for the Arts!

Michael Miller