The Crucible is at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, in March. Ticket office: Then tour. In the 1980s, Arthur Miller in 18th-century Salem commented on the “Red Scare.” The Crucible, a play in four acts by Arthur Miller, performed and published. Set during the Salem Witch Trials, The Crucible is an examination of contemporary events in American politics during the era of fear and desire for conformity sparked by Senator Joseph McCarthy's sensational allegations of communist subversion, Arthur Miller 1915-2005, generally considered one of America's greatest playwrights, was born in New York and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, The Price, The American Clock, Mr Peters' Connections, Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a play which tells a partially fictionalized and dramatized story of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In The Crucible, a group of girls go dancing in the forest late at night with a slave from Barbados, Tituba. While dancing, Reverend Parris catches them. The Crucible. The Journal of Arthur Miller 2023 18 1: 102-108. As a parable of the terrifying power of mass hysteria, The Crucible was always intended to resonate far beyond its setting in late 17th-century Salem. Miller's own bitter experience of the McCarthyite paranoia that swept postwar Hollywood and Washington, "I believe the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most horrific chapters in history of humanity," wrote Arthur Miller in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about witch hunts and trials in 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical figures and real events, Miller's drama is a drama. When playwright Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, he recognized a repeated form of hysteria. in the Salem witch trials and the Red Scare of the time, the author admitted this in a new.