John Proctor Is the Villain - November 22, 2024
Performances & Events
John Proctor Is the Villain
Department of Theatre & Drama
November 21, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Lydia Mendelssohn TheatreMichigan League, 911 N University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Reserved Seating $35 / $29 | Students $16 (fees included)
Written soon after the #MeToo movement entered the national conversation, this momentous, touching, and laugh-out-loud funny play explores themes of trust, betrayal, and the abuse of power as experienced by a group of high school friends. Set in a small Georgia town where everybody knows everybody else’s business, John Proctor Is the Villain focuses on the students in a high school literature class, and particularly on a group of girls who have strong and sometimes complicated friendships with each other. As the students discuss Arthur Miller’s The Crucible with their beloved teacher Mr. Smith – and as they explore, in an after-school club, what feminism means to them – they begin to see echoes between this classic American play about the Salem witch trials and events unfolding in their world. As those events come to a shocking climax, their assessment of the heroes and villains in The Crucible, and in their own lives, changes forever.
Written by Kimberly Belflower
Directed by Halena Kays
Recommended Ages: 15+