Exclusive: Charlie Condou to star in The Crucible

Initial casting has been announced for the the UK tour of a new production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Coronation Street's Charlie Condou will play witch-hunter Reverend Hale, who arrives in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Miller's 1953 classic focuses on John Proctor who defends his wife as his community turns against women accused of witchcraft.

The play is a partly fictionalised telling of the Salem witch trials, which saw twenty people executed, all but one of them hanged. It was written as an allegory for the way Senator McCarthy exposed and accused communists in 1950s America.

Douglas Rintoul will direct The Crucible which will open at Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch on 14 February 2017 before touring to Dartford, Cheltenham, Aberdeen, Luxembourg, Richmond, Brighton, Manchester, Cardiff, Birmingham and Glasgow.

The play is co-produced by theatre company Sell a Door in association with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg.

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The Crucible will open at Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch on 14 February 2017 before touring the UK and Luxembourg.