​​Performance Dates

October 8-18, 2026

Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows begin at 7:30pm. Sunday shows begin at 2:30pm.

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About the Show

Arthur Miller’s searing indictment of hysteria and integrity in a time of fear. Widely considered a masterpiece, this timeless classic challenges American ideas of power, intolerance, and justice. In the Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts, a servant girl accuses a farmer’s wife of witchcraft. One accusation spirals into many, uncovering a web of bigotry and deceit that changes their lives forever. Among the most produced plays since its 1953 debut, The Crucible is both a gripping historical drama and an evergreen parable of contemporary society.

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Character Descriptions

 

Notes:

• The ages listed reflect the characters' stage ages.

• Roles are open to performers of all backgrounds. Gender presentation listed reflects the script.

• Anyone auditioning for the role of Abigail Williams must be 18 years of age or older.

• The role of Martha Corey (offstage voice) will be pre-recorded by a member of the cast or crew.

 

Reverend Samuel Parris – 30-60, Male-Presenting, Minor Character

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Minister of Salem’s church, disliked by many residents. A weak and suspicious demagogue, Parris instigates the witchcraft panic when he finds his daughter and niece dancing in the woods with several other girls. He is more concerned about his reputation than the well-being of his sick daughter Betty. He is paranoid of losing status or money for having a witch as a daughter.

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Betty Parris – 10, Female-Presenting, Minor Character

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Reverend Parris’s daughter. Betty falls into a strange stupor after Parris catches her and the girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. She goes into hysterics when the charges of witchcraft first form, holding delusions that she can fly and exclaiming with horror when she hears the name of Jesus.

Note: Requires physical acting

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Tituba – 20-50, Female-Presenting, Black, Minor Character

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Parris' enslaved woman from Barbados, Tituba was with the girls when they danced and attempted to conjure the spirits of Ann Putnam's dead children. She is the first person accused of witchcraft and likewise the first person to accuse others of witchery - particularly when she discovers that the easiest way to spare herself is to admit to the charges no matter their truth. By the end she is troubled by mental instability, haunted by hallucinations and hysteria.

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Abigail Williams – 17, Female-Presenting, Lead Character

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Reverend Parris’ niece and the central antagonist. Abigail was once a servant in the Proctor household, but Elizabeth Proctor fired her after discovering that Abigail had an affair with her husband, John. In an attempt to protect herself from punishment after Reverend Parris finds her dancing in the woods, Abigail instigates the Salem witch trials and leads the charge of accusations. Smart, beguiling, and vindictive when crossed, she uses her charismatic influence over the girls in Salem to gain power in an attempt to supplant Elizabeth so she and John can marry. Abigail carries past trauma, having watched her parents killed by Native Americans as a child.

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Susanna Walcott – 14-17, Female-Presenting, Minor Character

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Susanna is a nervous and hasty girl who looks up to Abigail. She works for Dr. Griggs. She participates in the ritual in the woods with Tituba.

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Ann Putnam – 35-65, Female-Presenting, Minor Character

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Thomas Putnam’s wife has given birth to eight children, but only Ruth Putnam survived. The other seven died before they were a day old, and Ann is convinced that they were murdered by supernatural means.

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Thomas Putnam – 35-65, Male-Presenting, Minor Character

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A wealthy, bitter citizen of Salem, Putnam holds a grudge against Francis Nurse for preventing Putnam’s brother-in-law from being elected to the office of minister. He uses the witch trials to increase his own wealth by accusing people of witchcraft and then buying up their land.

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Mercy Lewis – 15-25, Female-Presenting, Minor Character

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Sly and merciless, she is a servant to the Putnams and participated in the ritual in the woods. She proves to be Abigail’s closest friend, sticking by her to the end.

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Mary Warren – 18, Female-Presenting, Supporting Character

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A timid and easily swayed servant in the Proctor household and a member of Abigail’s group of girls. She tries unsuccessfully to expose the hoax, but is thwarted by Abigail and the other girls. In order to save herself from their accusations of witchcraft, Mary ultimately recants her confession and turns on John Proctor.

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John Proctor – 30-45, Male-Presenting, Lead Character

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A farmer in Salem and the protagonist; Elizabeth Proctor’s husband. Proctor is a sharply intelligent, authentic, and steady man who can easily detect foolishness in others and expose it, but he questions his own moral sense due to an affair with the underage Abigail Williams. When the hysteria begins, he hesitates to expose Abigail as a fraud because he worries that his secret will be revealed to the community and his family’s good name ruined.

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Rebecca Nurse – 40-80, Female-Presenting, Supporting Character

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Francis Nurse’s wife. Rebecca is a wise, sensible, and upright woman, pillar of the community, held in highest regard by most of the Salem community. Jealous of Nurse’s many children and heartbroken over the loss of their own children, the Putnams accuse her of witchcraft. Not only does she refuse to confess, but she also voices her opposition to the idea of witchcraft and falls victim to the hysteria. Rebecca Nurse is the clear martyr in the play.

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Giles Corey – 65-85, Male-Presenting, Supporting Character

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An elderly, feisty farmer in Salem and friend of John Proctor, famous for his tendency to file lawsuits. He is the source of several laugh lines in the play, but meets a tragic end. After Giles’s wife, Martha, is accused of witchcraft due to her love of reading, he is held in contempt of court and pressed to death with large stones. In spite of this torture, he refuses to plea (allowing his children to retain ownership of their property) and he refuses to accuse anyone else.

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Reverend John Hale – 30s, Male-Presenting, Supporting Character

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A young, dedicated minister, reputed to be an expert on witchcraft, and called in to Salem to examine Parris’s daughter. His critical mind and intelligence save him from falling into blind fervor. His arrival sets the hysteria in motion, although he later regrets his actions and attempts to save the lives of those accused, even begging some—like John Proctor—to lie and confess in order to live.

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Elizabeth Proctor – 30-45, Female-Presenting, Main Character

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The wife of John Proctor, Elizabeth shares with John a similarly strict adherence to justice and moral principles. Elizabeth can be cold, especially to John whom she struggles to forgive. Although she is regarded as a woman of unimpeachable honesty, she lies to the community about her husband’s affair with Abigail, thinking it will save him.

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Francis Nurse – 40-80, Male-Presenting, Minor Character

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Francis is the husband of Rebecca Nurse, and a well-respected, wealthy landowner in Salem. Francis Nurse joins Giles Corey and John Proctor in their challenge against the court when their respective wives are charged with witchcraft.

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Ezekiel Cheever – Any, Male-Presenting, Minor Character

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Ezekiel is a clerk of the court who serves the arrest warrants to the people charged with witchcraft.

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Marshal Herrick – Any, Male-Presenting, Minor Character

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The marshal of Salem responsible for bringing defendants before the court. Sympathetic, he comes to disbelieve the witchcraft allegations.

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Judge Hathorne – 45-75, Male-Presenting, Minor Character

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A judge who presides over the witch trials, along with Danforth. Cold, ignorant and antagonistic, he denies any possible explanation other than witchcraft.

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Judge Danforth – 45-75, Male-Presenting, Supporting Character

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Deputy Governor of Massachusetts and presiding judge at the witch trials. He is a stern, scrupulous man more interested in preserving the dignity and stature of the court than in executing justice.

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Sarah Good – 18-45, Female-Presenting, Minor Character

 

One of the first women charged with witchcraft by the girls, she is a pregnant, homeless woman who confesses to witchcraft to save herself. She gives birth in jail but the baby dies. The ordeal has affected her to the point of mental instability. She appears only briefly in the last scene.