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La Commission des activités antiaméricaines du parlement des Etats-Unis connut son heure de gloire au début des années cinquante lorsque le sénateur Joseph McCarthy en devint le président et pourchassa militants et simples sympathisants communistes notamment dans les rangs de l'intelligentsia (Dashiell Hammett, Bertold Brecht, la fameuse liste noire des " dix de Hollywood "). Interrogé lui-même par cette commission, Arthur Miller s'est inspiré de cette époque de " chasse aux sorcières " pour écrire Les Sorcières de Salem. II y met en scène un autre épisode célèbre de l'histoire américaine : le procès homonyme qui, en 1692, ébranla une petite communauté de la Nouvelle-Angleterre gagnée par une crise d'hystérie puritaine et se solda par la condamnation de nombreuses personnes soupçonnées de pratiques sataniques et par vingt-cinq exécutions. Mise en scène à Paris en 1955, dans une adaptation de Marcel Aymé, la pièce interprétée par le couple Simone Signoret-Yves Montand connut un véritable triomphe. Les Sorcières de Salem illustre de façon magistrale comment peut être facilement franchie - et en tout temps - la frontière entre raison et folie, justice et fanatisme
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The Crucible
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Les sorcières de Salem: pièce en quatre actes
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Few serious American playwrights have captured the imagination of the theater public all over the world as has Arthur Miller with DEATH OF A SALESMAN and THE CRUCIBLE. Mr. Miller's plays are rooted in a realistically critical view of American life and propelled by the intense personal conviction of a man who cares what he writes about and writes about something that matters. In THE CRUCIBLE he turns for his setting to the grim days of the Salem witch trials, and brings into urgently brilliant focus on an issue that still weighs heavily the progress of American civilization--the problem of guilt by association.
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