Shakespeare in the Park

This year’s Shakespeare in the Park has two amazing theatrical performances available, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller.

Arthur Miller’s parable of mass hysteria draws a savage parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 – “one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history” – and the McCarthyism that gripped America in the 1950s. But its portrait of the ordinary evils latent in any society, of mindless, hysterical persecution through ignorance, fear of ‘otherness’ and our capacity to serve ourselves above all others make it o