Lyric, BelfastAnyone looking for contemporary parallels in Arthur Miller's play based on the 1692 Salem witch trials will invariably find them. The fundamentalism, repression and prejudice that Miller used as a metaphor for anti-communist trials in 1950s America have endured, and taken new forms. In his riveting production for the redesigned Lyric, Conall Morrison does not labour any Northern Irish resonances. He let…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PM on May 10, 2011