Hedda Gabler

Hedda (née Gabler) and Jørgen Tesman have just returned from a six-month honeymoon and are settling into married life in the house he has bought specifically to please her. Yet Hedda only finds boredom and banality in her married life. When the re-appearance of an old flame of hers threatens both Jorgen's career prospects and...

The Crucible

Arthur Miller's The Crucible uses the Salem witch trials of the 1690s as a parable for the McCarthy hearing of the period in which the play was written. In the tight-knit, Puritan town of Salem, a group of girls are discovered dancing in the woods and then immediately fall ill. When no earthly cause can...