The Crucible – Melbourne Theatre Company

Overview

When a marquee theatre company attempts to reimagine a classic, fireworks are expected to ensue. It needs to be fresh and it needs to take the play in some sort of unexpected direction. And, furthermore, it tends to need a superstar's name to put up on the billboard.

As superstars go, they don't come more much more super than Hollywood heavyweight David Wenham. Wenham takes on the iconic and notoriously difficult role of John Proctor, the morally conflicted farmer facing a world of damning accusations, in the Melbourne Theatre Company's much-anticipated production of The Crucible.

While Wenham has some fairly sizeable boots to fill (and in terms of acting chops there are perhaps no larger boots than Daniel Day-Lewis's), his versatility in such critically and commercially acclaimed films as The Lord of the Rings, The Proposition and Oranges and Sunshine, emphatically prove Wenham as amongst Australia's finest thespians.

Directed by Sam Strong, MTC's take on Arthur Miller's allegorical critique of the McCarthy-era witch hunts looks set to be one for the history books for Melbourne's premiere theatre company. Head to their website to get your hands on the hottest theatre tickets available this winter.