"The play is most engaging and provocative when at its most original — mining its characters’ messy, developing psyches, with contemporary and sometimes profane language, rather than placing them within existing narratives."
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“ ‘The Good John Proctor’ is the kind of unabashedly anachronistic historical play that features characters greeting each other with slang like "Hey bitches" and using modern profanities in everyday speech.”
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“The problem with ’The Good John Proctor’– excellent as the acting is, and as is Caitlin Sullivan’s direction – gathers while playwright Monahan keeps piling the scenes one on top of the other. Too soon spectators see exactly where she’s going.”
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Unfortunately, Monahon’s play which takes its cues from Miller’s drama, assumes a thorough knowledge of "The Crucible" and leaves out a great deal of information that would make it easier to follow. For example, John Proctor’s name is never uttered by the girls even after Abigail goes to work for him and his wife in the play. Caitlin Sullivan’s direction is too tame by far so that the play is not very dramatic. The most exciting event, the trial itself, is left as an afterthought and narrated years later by one of the girls after her death.
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"The play talks very little of the women who died at Salem, but we see by the end that the damage also cuts deep into those who lived. "
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