Once it gets underway, two things about Turner’s production leap out. In fact, it’s more complicated than that. The first impression is that Turner is intent on laying on a colossal, sturm-und-drang spectacle in the vein of the Old Vic’s monumental 2014 production, the last big London staging of Arthur Miller’s 1953 masterpiece. But the elemental cascade, Tim Lutkin’s exquisitely moody lighting and the acapella singing from the pink-clad chorus of girls is a spine-tingling combination. Once the curtain (of rain) goes up, it’s only sparingly used, with the rest of Es Devlin’s set a minimalist thrust pocked by tangles of chairs. It doesn’t get much more spectacular than the crashing wall of artificial rain that shrouds the Olivier’s stage before Lyndsay Turner’s revival of ‘The Crucible’ starts. ‘The Crucible’ transfers to the Gielgud Theatre in June 2023, with an all new cast headed up by Milly Alcock from ‘House of the Dragon’ as Abigail Williams and prolific Irish actor Brian Gleeson as John Proctor. This review is from the National Theatre in September 2022.
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