A veiled reflection of the anticommunist witch-hunts of the 1950s, this play portrays seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts as a rigid theocracy eager to ferret out real or imagined deviations from the norm, and indicts everyone in Salem-and by extension American society-for the crimes of intolerance and blind hatred. Additional Details \N BOOK TYPE : NF BRAND : Dreyfuss, Richard (EDT)/ Keach, Stacy (NRT)/ Miller, Arthur (NRT) LANGUAGE : ENGLISH PUBLISH DATE : 2001/10/01 PUBLISHER IMPRINT CODE : LATHR PUBLISHER NAME : L A THEATRE WORKS RETURNS ACCEPTED? : YES
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