Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at the Globe Theatre

Name: The Crucible
Start: 2025-05-08
End: 2025-07-12
Location: Globe Theatre

Where? Globe Theatre, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside When? 8th May to 12th July 2025 Price? Standing: £5 to £10; Seated: £25 to £80 Parking: Nearby car parks Buses: 11, 15, 17, 26, 45, 63, 76, 100, 344, 381, 344 Bus fares Trains: The closest station is Southwark Jubilee Other nearby stations: Cannon Street and Mansion House Train fares

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Arthur Miller's gripping thriller The Crucible is coming to the Globe Theatre for a strictly-limited nine week run.

Using the Salem witch trials as an allegory for McCarthyism in 1950s America, Miller explores how many lies a town full of people are prepared to tell in order to save themselves.

When rumours grow that a group of girls are practicing witchcraft in a 17th-century town, a climate of fear sweeps through the population as paranoia and superstition take hold. It soon becomes a dangerous place to be as everyone is implicated, and nobody is safe.

When The Crucible came out in 1953 it landed Miller right in the middle of a McCarthyist witchhunt himself. He was even questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities and convicted of contempt for refusing to identify the people he mixed with. But the play went on to win a Tony Award and has gone down as a stone-cold classic.

Watching a play at the Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre is a replica of the one that stood in Shakespeare's day and is completely open to the weather. If you buy a cheap ticket then you'll be standing in the 'yard' that surrounds the stage. In Shakespeare's day it would have been filled with wet mud and sawdust, but these days it's solid concrete.

You can also sit on one of the balconies that wrap around the yard. For the best view we recommend going for one on the middle level... but try and avoid the three bays closest to the stage because your view will be obscured by some supporting columns (so don't go in blocks A, B, C, N, P or Q). If you're in the upper level then avoid the first four bays (so don't go in blocks A, B, C, D, M, N, P or Q). And if you're on the lower level avoid the first two bays (A, B, P and Q).