Les sorcières de Salem, édition originale

"The Witches of Salem" (original English title The Crucible) is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1953, based on the events surrounding the witchcraft trial in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. Miller describes the event as an allegory of McCarthyism. He himself was challenged by the Committee on Anti-American Activities in 1956. This book allows him to criticize McCarthyism indirectly because many members of his entourage have been censored and suspected of being communists. The Committee on Anti-American Activities had no evidence against the accused and it is here that we see the similarities between the 1950s and 1692. The witches have also been accused without proof. Arthur Miller thinks people make the same mistakes all the time, so he denounced him in his play. Translated and adapted into French by Marcel Aymé, it was performed in France for the first time in Paris at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre in 1955, directed by Raymond Rouleau, with Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Pierre Mondy, Maurice Chevit, Jean d'Yd, Marc Valbel, Jean Violette and Darling Légitimus".

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