The Salem witch-hunts and trials will come alive in Park Slope when Brooklyn’s Brave New World Repertory Theatre presents a two-week run of Arthur Miller’s classic play The Crucible, March 4-14.
The site-specific production will take place in The Old Stone House, originally constructed in 1699, seven years after the Salem hangings. The production will be lit entirely using candlelight lanterns (no electric lights) to deepen the dramatic impact of the play and its subject matter.
Rather than change scenery, Brave New World (BNW) will invite the audience to move after intermission—from the setting (the Parris and Proctor homes) on the ground floor for Acts One and Two, to a larger room upstairs (the courthouse and jail) for Acts Three and Four.
The evening will commence with a prologue in the front yard seen through the parlor windows. (Complete dates/ticket information below)
Brave New World Repertory has garnered attention over the past five years for its site-specific productions around the borough, including To Kill a Mockingbird on the front porches of a tree-lined Ditmas Park street, On The Waterfront on a Brooklyn barge that toured the waterfronts of New York Bay, and The Tempest on the beach and boardwalk in Coney Island.
This production of The Crucible got its start as a highly popular reading during Brave New World’s 2009 Salon Series of Play Readings, also at the Old Stone House. Based in Brooklyn, Brave New World Repertory has been a featured favorite of Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park band shell, presenting acclaimed productions of Fahrenheit 451, The Great White Hope and Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, based on Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. THE CRUCIBLE, By Arthur Miller Directed by Claire Beckman At The Old Stone House, Park Slope (http://www.theoldstonehouse.org) 336 3rd Street (between Fourth & Fifth Avenues) – Brooklyn, NY March 4-14th – Thursdays and Fridays at 8; Saturdays at 2 and 8; Sundays at 7 Tickets can be purchased on the website: http://www.bravenewworldrep.org or by calling the box office: 917 285-8911
Brave New World Repertory Theatre draws from Brooklyn’s rich artistic community to create dynamic and engaging theatre on the Brooklyn side of the bridge. Founded by a group of local theatre professionals, the company produces classic and neglected works, as well as new works by its members. Brave New World Repertory Theatre provides its actors, directors, designers, playwrights and stage managers the opportunity to work in and for their own community. http://www.bravenewworldrep.org
The Old Stone House is a 1930’s reconstruction of the Vechte-Cortelyou House, a 1699 Dutch farmhouse with important ties to American history. Located in Washington Park/JJ Byrne Playground, the OSH’s historic interpretive center is dedicated to its crucial role in the American Revolution and the evolving histories of Brooklyn, New York and the United States. OSH is also a presenting organization for theatre, music, exhibitions and literary readings throughout the year. www.theoldstonehouse.org