Bristol Old Vic revives Arthur Miller's The Crucible

Bristol Old Vic's artistic director Tom Morris will direct a new revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible later this year.

The production comes just ahead of the venue's 250th anniversary celebrations in 2016, and returns the allegorical play to the home of its 1954 UK premiere.

"Returning to this astonishing play in Miller's centenary year, the play's universality – and hence its greatness – is striking," said Morris.

"Written to reflect the fears, ambitions and hypocrisies of anti-communist paranoia in the 1950s, Miller's text seems to draw and resonate the fears and hypocrisies from any age in which it is played."

Morris will collaborate with associate director George Mann and designer Robert Innes Hopkins on the production, which runs from 8 October to 7 November 2015.

The Bristol Old Vic autumn season also includes Life Raft, adapted by Fin Kennedy from Georg Kaiser's The Raft of the Medusa, and touring productions of Marius von Mayenburg's Martyr (ATC/Unicorn), Complicite's The Encounter and Little Bulb's Orpheus.

The Christmas production, as previously reported, is a new musical version of Sleeping Beauty.