THE GOOD JOHN PROCTOR

by Talene Monahon
Bedlam
Connolly Theatre

Best Theatre of 2023 - The New Yorker

THE GOOD JOHN PROCTOR is a new look at the lead-up to the Salem Witch Trials, imagining the inner lives of the real girls at the center of the trials as they hurtle toward the events dramatized in Arthur Miller’s THE CRUCIBLE. Abigail Warren, age eleven, and Betty Parris, age nine and a half, are best friends. There’s also Mercy Lewis, the child alcoholic, and Mary Warren, who shakes for no reason. The girls churn butter, play with poppets, and listen to The Woods at night. But their world is turned upside-down when Abigail starts to work for a farmer named John Proctor. Playwright Talene Monahon brings these familiar names to new life as the young women of Salem navigate the nature of Satan and the bloody trials of adolescence.

Directed by Caitlin Sullivan
Written by Talene Monahon
Scenic Design by Cate McCrea
Lighting Design by Isabella Byrd
Costume Design by Phương Nguyễn
Sound Design by Lee Kinney
Properties Design by Buffy Cardoza
Fight and Intimacy Coordination by Sean Chin
Stage Management by Esti Bernstein

Featuring Brittany Allen, Sharlene Cruz, Tavi Gevinson, Susannah Perkins

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“The Year’s Best Theatre” - The New Yorker

“Beautifully staged by the director Caitlin Sullivan, the play is most engaging and provocative when at its most original — mining its characters’ messy, developing psyches, with contemporary and sometimes profane language…”
- Naveen Kumar, The New York Times

“Under Caitlin Sullivan’s confident direction, “The Good John Proctor” has the sense of palpable dread…The girls talk a lot about going into ‘The Woods,’ a source of forbidden knowledge, and there are certainly creepy scenes, lit by a single lantern, of them crawling through underbrush. They think they’re inching toward something dangerous, but we know that the lasting harm has already been done.” - Helen Shaw, The New Yorker