For those of you who frequently teach or use THE CRUCIBLE and are now also interested in JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN, you might be interested in a couple of other plays that comment on, are companion pieces to, and are in conversation with the events of Miller's play and the Salem Witch Trials.
We represent Talene Monahon's THE GOOD JOHN PROCTOR, which ran Off Broadway a couple of seasons ago. It's an atmospheric play set in Salem, 1691. Nine year-old Betty Parris and eleven year-old Abigail Williams' churn butter, play with poppets, and whisper at night while strange noises emanate from The Woods in the darkness. As fourteen-year-old Mercy Lewis declares, "Satan is everywhere." When Abigail starts working for a local farmer, John Proctor, the children's world is turned upside down…THE GOOD JOHN PROCTOR reimagines the year leading up to the infamous Salem Witch Trials through the eyes of the girls at the center of it all.
https://www.theatricalrights.com/show/the-good-john-proctor/
GOOD JOHN PROCTOR deals with the lead up to THE CRUCIBLE, and then we have WITCH HUNT, which returns Salem ten years after Miller's play. WITCH HUNT is by Liz Duffy Adams, whose play BORN WITH TEETH is about to open in London's West End. In Duff's play, it is ten years after Abigail Williams, instigator of the witch trials, disappeared from Salem, when she turns up at the tavern of her fellow ex witch-hunter, Mercy Lewis. About to leave the colonies forever, it's her last chance to understand the madness that overtook them. But with war threatening northern New England yet again, Mercy and her fellow townspeople are in no mood for Abigail's doubts, which suggest to them complicity with the devil. And just when everything is at its most dangerously tense-the devil himself shows up.
https://www.theatricalrights.com/show/witch-hunt/
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Craig Pospisil
Vice President - TRW
TRW - Theatrical Rights Worldwide
New York NY
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-29-2025 12:59
From: Katherine Weible
Subject: JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN
Great play. I teach it alongside The Crucible, which evokes many important conversations. After reading the scripts, we watch productions of both. Then, we do scenes from both if time permits.
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Katie Blackerby Weible
Theatre Dept Chair
Youth Performing Arts School
Louisville KY
Original Message:
Sent: 07-28-2025 13:00
From: Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Subject: JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN
Has anyone taught John Proctor is the Villain in high school? I do She Kills Monsters as our scene study play in even years, and I'm hoping to add JPITV this year. I'd love any wisdom anyone can share!
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Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Theatre, Film, and Communications Instructor
Shenandoah Valley Governor's School
Fishersville, VA
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