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For our production of //The Crucible// by Arthur Miller, my vision as director was to create a stage production of //The Crucible// that made audiences feel like they were watching a Stanley Kubrick film. To make this vision possible we would create a production that was heavily reliant on color schemes, "on-point" blocking for the actor's, and centered and purposefully placed set pieces. Giving the audience a feeling of lonliness while creating beautiful and somewhat alienating pictures with every moment on stage.
 * __Director's Vision__**

Stylistically, the production I envisioned emulates the films of Stanley Kubrick through its surrealistic portrayal of the events in //The Crucible.// For example, a large cross looming in the background gradually transforms from an ethereal white, to crimson red.Slowly acting as a transforming clock representing the corruption of government and its sin against human rights. In true Avant Garde fashion this production we bill unorthodox in its color and slow dissipation of set pieces, props, costumes, and make-up. All movements by the actors on-stage will be intensely blocked resulting in somewhat of an expressionistic display.
 * __Style__**



The video below is a scene from Paul Thomas Anderson's //There Will Be Blood.// The cross in this scene would be very much like the one in our production of //The Crucible.// Except ours would slowly turn crimson red.

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Our production of //The Crucible// will convey the message of the steady destruction of human rights through corrupt government and religion. Throughout //The Crucible// relationships and people are destroyed because of the corrupt manner of this specific totalitarian-like judicial system. The judges' biased approach to the trial based on hearsay and devious speculations supports this theme. As well as, through these speculations the judges' begin to destroy the foundation of religion itself by forcing people to participate in a corrupted organized religious society. The process through which man experiences redemption is another reccurring theme. It can be best displayed by John Proctor's battle to be true to his wife and himself while not completely tainting his name in the public eye. Additionally, Reverand Hale struggles to overturn his past wrongfully motivated allegations against townsfolk. In the end, Hale must put his religious beliefs aside and convince the judges that the townsfolk and John Proctor may not be perfect, but are innocent.
 * __Main Idea/Theme__**

The attempted message of our production of //The Crucible// is to show an audience of today that these unjustifiable acts have and are occurring all over the world. //The Crucible// can not only be connected to the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s, but also to America's Patriot Act of today. Through Arthur Miller's timeless story and our original production audiences will be able to enjoy their time at the theater as well as receive an important message about corrupt governments and that can destroy a person's individual rights, as well as their own religious freedoms.
 * __Message/Metaphor__**


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Director__** For the choice of the director nobody would fit the bill other than Stanley Kubrick, but as most people know he is dead. So the choice was made for a director who has proven to be able to handle original writings respectfully but do something new, exciting and different. Our choice for director would be highly respected film and stage actor/director Kenneth Branagh.