#OnThisDay, August 19, in 1692, in Salem, Massachusetts, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft (depicted in The Crucible, 1996)

#TodayInHistory #Film #Cinemastodon #Movies #Letterboxd #TheCrucible #Salem #Plays #Theater

Actor/Singer #EdAmes, best known for his role as Mingo on 1960s TV series #DanielBoone, has died at 95. Ames appeared #OffBroadway (#TheCrucible, #TheFantasticks) and on #Broadway (#Carnival!, #OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest). His TV credits include "McCloud", "Murder, She Wrote", "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "Jake and the Fatman". Ames is also known for one of the most famous TV bloopers of all time, demonstrating his tomahawk-throwing skills on #TheTonightShow. #RIP
https://youtu.be/0L5QC9ZJkM8

#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 7: a town meeting for #NationalTownMeetingDay

Raymond Rouleau's Les sorcières de #Salem (FR/GDR, 1957) – , with a screenplay by Marxist philosopher Jean-Paul #Sartre – is a very early #film adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1953 #TheatrePlay The Crucible. An allegory of #McCarthyism, the play is a (partially dramatised) retelling of the #SalemWitchTrials, a dramatic episode in early US-American history. During several court and town meetings, 200 people were falsely accused of meddling with the Devil; 19 of them were eventually executed.

Miller himself was accused of un-American activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. Which doesn't mean that #WitchTrials are a thing of the past. As easily one can transplant Puritan religious mass hysteria to 1950s McCarthy anti-socialism, as easy is it applicable to the state of the world today.

#ArthurMiller #JeanPaulSartre #TheCrucible #DDR #SimoneSignoret #YvesMontand @film

"Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises."

I have a mixed relationship with American theatre but saw Miller's #TheCrucible tonight — as staged by the NT — and it will stay with me for a very long time. Utterly stunning.

Are you going to be in Oakland or the SF East Bay area this weekend? Want to come to The Crucible and see a bunch of fabulous artists and their work, as well as some live demos in blacksmithing, glass blowing, woodworking, and more? I'll be there all weekend with my glass flameworking, and I'd love it if people stopped by and said hi!

https://www.thecrucible.org/event/2022-gifty/

#TheCrucible #GIFTY2022 #ArtFair #Oakland

New today at my #eBay store, a #1stEdition of #ArthurMiller's classic #TheCrucible, just $100 or best offer because of damage to the dust jacket (usually $600 in Fine condition). https://ebay.us/Mc7Eps