During Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio, host Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Dramatic Arts Teacher and Director of the National School of the Arts, Laine Butler.

From October 13 – 16, Arthur Miller’s allegorical Tony Award-winning play, The Crucible, will be staged in the People’s Theatre at Joburg Theatre. Directed by Laine Butler and Johan Anker and featuring top talent from the NSA, The Crucible will appeal to theatre lovers and learners currently studying the text as a setwork. “The People’s Theatre provides an intimate playing space perfect for a work of this nature,” says Laine Butler.

The Arthur Miller trust gave the National School of the Arts permission to set The Crucible in SALEM in the Eastern Cape. The name, SALEM, means peaceful and complete; a bitter irony for the infamous SALEM in Massachusetts, whose name will forever be synonymous with the tragic witch-hunts which took place there over 300 years ago, in which 19 innocent people were hanged for being witches.

The Crucible is presented by the NSA Drama Department and directed by Johan Anker and Laine Butler, whose previous NSA productions include the Afro-Punk Macbeth (2017/2018), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2019) and Hip-Hop Hamlet (2020).

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