The Crucible Theatre Analysis

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The Visual and Performing Arts Theatre Program presents “The Crucible by Arthur Miller.” This show started on October 29, 2015 in Lone Star College – Kingwood. This people in event is attended from college student. The author wrote this play to “the Privy Council that he had therefore put a stop to the Print of any discourse one way or the other that may increase the needless disputes of people upon this occasion because I saw a likelihood of kindling an inextinguishable flame.” (Michelle Dean, 2015)
Costume Design George Curry is the costume designer. He worked at the hit Broadway shows. In this show, the costume was looking back in the 18th century. The men costume in pants, coat, and sleeve shirt but in dark color such as black, tan, brown,
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This scenic of the crucible show was super good design. When enter the theater, the stage was set up a house wood and background like haunt forest. Few character was walking around the stage similar ghost or dead. In the house, there was a solid bed and brown wood furniture.
Lighting Design Kalliope Vlahos is lighting designer; she received her MFA in Technical Theatre/ Lighting Design from the University of Arizona in 2007. However, first thing enter the show there is the light with blue, green, yellow, and white. She make the stage look dark such as night and scaring day. It look like haunting through the forest. When the character start to talk or move around the light is bright white on them. The end of the play, the light was make lighting by flashing the light white while all character come out from right and left side of stage. The light bright over everyone then shadow down the light.
Sound Design The sound designer is the same person (Kalliope Vlahos) from scenic and lighting design. She make the sound effect creepy on few part of show. The begging of the show, the sound was ghost in haunted forest and hawk. When they changing the scenic element, the sound was into scary spooky sounds. Also, the end of the show, the sound effect was made in thunderstorm. This play tends to be scary sounds because things happened in haunted story and

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