Word: witching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father says. "She's studying to be a witch doctor...
Cotton Mather, son of Harvard President Increase Mather (1685-1701), was "personally responsible" for the hanging of an alleged witch, Mitchell says...
...According to the [classics] head tutor, the grader had already read it," she said. "So what he was doing on the T witch it is beyond...
...depth of the cast and the superbly understated direction from Travis and assistants. Nearly every aspect of Miller's potent script, major and subtle, has not only been captured but reinvigorated with a freshness that cannot help but echo its modern and contemporary parallels. Miller showed that Salem's witch hunts described the anatomy of McCarthyism in the late 40s and early 50s to the great dismay of his audiences. Today, instead of McCarthy's right-wing purges, an illiberal but leftist politics, sexual and otherwise, elicits similar dismay. Whatever other parallels come to mind, Travis taps into that reaction...
...production's heart lies the consistently solid portrayals of Miller's panoply of good and evil. Most notable is Efron's sturdy but tainted Proctor whose one mistake returns to undo him during the witch trials months after his crime. The utter insanity of the proceedings culminates with a confession, the only legitimate one lodged in the court in months, and it proves to seal his fate. Meanwhile the perjury of others not only protects them but esteems them in the eyes of the court. Efron's simmering outrage underlines the impotent justice of Judge Danforth (Richard Gardner...