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The Crucible Symposium

Where
Seymour Centre
Seymour Centre
Corner of City Road and Cleveland Street, Chippendale NSW 2006
When

Tuesday 1 April from 1:30pm to 4:30pm Friday 4 April from 9:30am to 12:30pm Friday 13 June from 10:30am to 1:30pm

Cost

General Public: $45School Student: $33School Teacher: $33

The Crucible, Arthur Miller's parable of mass hysteria, is a portrait of the ordinary evils latent in any society, of mindless, hysterical persecution through ignorance, fear of 'otherness', and our capacity to serve ourselves above all others, making it one of the world's most transcendent and important stories, in any age.

Damien Ryan's intensive and detailed performance symposium on the play offers a rich opportunity for students to meet the characters, look beneath the play – at its language, characters, form, and theatricality – and discuss the big ideas with professional actors who have a long relationship with the play.

What does it mean to us now? Come and join the conversation. After all, we can stand back from these puritanical thinkers and feel safe from their ignorant, outdated superstitions and prejudices, but Miller's very successful point is that we just can't. The belief systems and modes of persecution might change, but the ignorance and willingness to hurt each other do not.

The Crucible illustrates these things at personal, familial, judicial and political levels, and asks actors to give everything they have to tell it. 

"The quality of the material and the thoughtful mix of analysis and performance was beneficial for getting our students back into The Crucible given it is a long time since we studied it in Term 4." - Hailey Bootes, Head of English at Covenant Christian School

Image credit: Seiya Taguchi

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