Auditions for The Crucible will be held on April 6 at Western Oaks Baptist Church at 5345 Old Jacksonville Road in Springfield. To schedule an audition time, please email the director at carlyshank@yahoo.com. Walk-in auditionees will also be welcome on that date. Those auditioning do not need to prepare anything in advance, but some familiarity with the play is recommended.
Rehearsals for The Crucible will begin May 13. Rehearsals will be held in Springfield and at New Salem.
Roles:
Tituba - Reverend Parris' slave, brought to Massachussettes from Barbados
Reverend Samuel Parris - Pastor to the Puritanical community of Salem; a weak, paranoid, and suspicious demagogue
Abigail Williams - 17-year-old niece of Reverend Parris; malicious, vengeful
Susanna Walcott - A confidant of Abigail, somewhat younger than her; nervous, hurried
Betty Parris - Daughter of Reverend Parris, younger than Abigail; more childlike than the other girls
Ann Putnam - Parishoner of Reverend Parris, mother to one of the ailing teenage girls; suspicious and paranoid
Thomas Putnam - Parishoner of Reverend Parris, father to one of the ailing teenage girls; longtime resident of Salem whose actions are driven by greed and fear
Mercy Lewis - 18 years old; slovenly, merciless
Mary Warren - 17-year-old servant of Proctor; subserviant, naïve, lonely, and pliable
John Proctor - A hard-working Salem farmer; the voice of reason and justice in Salem, sharply intelligent and witty at times, questions whether he is a moral man
Rebecca Nurse - 72 years old with white hair and a walking stick; one of the most noble and well-respected citizens of Salem, kindly and sane, the martyr of the play
Giles Corey - 83 years old, knotted with muscle; canny, inquisitive, still powerful, a comic figure whose fate turns tragic
Reverend John Hale - A religious scholar from Beverly; his approach to the accusations of witchcraft shifts from precise intellectuality to disillusionment through the course of the play
Elizabeth Proctor - Wife of John Proctor; shares her husband's strict adherence to justice and moral principles, has great confidence in her own morality, can be a cold and demanding woman
Francis Nurse - Husband of Rebecca Nurse, a well-respected wealthy landowner
John Willard - Guard at the jail cell
Ezekiel Cheever - Clerk of the court who serves warrants
Deputy Governor Danforth - A grave man in his 60s who presides over the Salem witch trials; stern yet practical, interested in preserving the dignity and stature of the court
Judge Hathorne - Largely subservient to Deputy Governor Danforth, applying the same tortured reasoning to the charges of witchcraft
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