“IT’s A Testament to the Subtle Brilliance of Kimberly Belflower’s Writing and Danya Tamor’s Direction That You Can Can Hardly Feel The 105-Minute, No-Intermission Runtime of John. The Play, Now On Broadway, Follows A Group of Junior Girls at Helen County High, A SMALL SCHOOL IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA, WHO START A FEMINIST”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Play, Now On Broadway, Follows A Group of Junior Girls at Helen County High, A Small School in Northeast Georgia, Who Start a Feminist Club at the Height of the #METOOOO MOVEMENT. At first, their plans are almost thwarted by anonymously concerned community members who worry the Group Will Alienate Boys. The Girls Insist Thatir Male Peers Can, and In Fact Shouldbecome members. “If we have a were to foster a meningful Dialogue with Them, we could find common ground,“ Intones beth (an impressive Fina Strazza), The High-Strung But Well-Meaning. “That’s Like, the Whole Purpos of this Club, that’s Who’s It Important.”
Lucky for Tese Teens, Their Beloved English Teacher, Mr. Smith (Gabriel Ebert), Stumbles Upon The Heated Confrontation and Cuts a Deal with Guidance Counselor Miss Gallagher (Molly Griggs) Miller’s The Crucible – Into their agenda, then the organization Proposal Will Be Approved. The Girls Enthusiastical Agree to These Terms. They are even Care that Mason (A Winning Nihar Duvuri), A Junior Boy Failing English Class, Has to Join The Club for Extra Credit. It’s 2018, and the onslaughht of News About Acused Men and Their Survivors Have Left The Teens Seking A SAFE SPACE TO TACLE BIG QUESTIONS AND CONFUSING FEELINGS.
But The Girls Have No Idea Just How Important The Femonist Club Will Become Over the Course of the Spring Semester, As a Series of Distressing Events Threaten to Upend Their Lives. The Drama Starts with The Return of Shelby Holcomb (Sadie Sink), A member of this friend Group Who Abrabtly Left School for this MONTHS After Sleeping with Her Best. No One Knows Where She Went, But The Rumor Mill Whirs As Soon As She Steps Foot on Campus. Raelynn (an excellent amalia yoo), The Reserved Daughter of A Preacher, Isn’t Sure How to Process Her Former Friend Coming Back to School; She’s Still Angry with Shelby for Having Sex with Lee (an Appropriately Slimy Hagan Oliveras).
Meanwhile, Ivy Watkins (Maggie Kuntz), Another Friend in the Group, Wrestles with News That Her Father Has Been Acused Of Sexual Harassment BY One of His Employees. The Case Grips and Divides Residents of this One-StopLight Town, Including Members of the Feminist Club.
In the background of this interpersonal Drama, The Girls, Whose Friend Group Includes Recent Transfer Nell (Morgan Scott, With Sharp Comedic Timing) The Crucible and Prepare for their Final Projects, in WHICH they must put Two Characters Whover Share A Scene in Conversation with One Another. As the Girls Read More of Miller’s Play, They Begin to Question WHY JOHN PROCOR, A REPUTATION-OSBSESSED MAN WHO ARGUABLY RUBINED NOTY ONLY HIS WIFE Elizabeth. Their re-examination of the Play about the Salem Witch Trials Becomes a Means Through WHICH WHTER US BETTER UNDERDAND THEIR OWN REALITIES.
A Familiarity with Miller’s Work, Which The Playwright Wrote As A Respensse to McCarthyism, is Not A Requirement for John Proctor Is The Villain. In organization Her Play AROUND AN ENGLISH CLASS, BELFLOWER INCORPORATES Any Necessary Plot Points Into Mr. Smith’s Lessons and Discussions Between the Students.
John Proctor Is The Villain Was First Produced at Studio Theater in Washington, DC, Whore Marti Lyons Directed, But Tayor, Who Won A Tony Last Year for Directing The Outsidersassumes the reins of this version. HER DIRECTION IS NIMBLE WITHOUT LOZING SIGHT OF THE PLAY’S STRIKING Emotion Core. She works with amp, with whom she was chollaborated on The Outsidersand Teresa L. Williams to Reinforce The Play’s Intimacy Through a vivid and Detailed Set. All the Action in John Proctor Is The Villain take place in mr. Smith’s Classroom, Whosh Is Decorated with Georgia Bulldogs Ephemera, A Couch for Students to Sit on And Stare Out the Windows, and Motivational Posters. One Wall Boasts A List of the State ‘MOST FAMOUS AUTHORS IN ADDITION TO HELPFUL TIPS FOR Good Writing. The Metal Desks, Plastic Chairs and Linoleum Tiles Resemble Those in Public Schools Across The Country.
The Conversations Between the Girls Are a sprightly Dance of Topics, from School Gosip and Local Affairs to pop culture and private fears. They Speak at the Speed of An Internet Scroll, Yet that Swiftness Doesn’t Subtract from the Profundity. Institute, It Makes Room for Revelations – About their Discomfortts, Their Preferences and Their Desires. An endearing intimacy is fosted and the stakes of these relationships are heighted.
Many Theatergoers Will Be Drawn to John Proctor Is The Villain by Sink, Who Made Her BreakthROUGH IN Stranger Things and MOST RECENTLY STARRED IN SEARCHLIGHT’s Musical Drama O’dessa. While the Actress Holds Her Own, Channeling Her Character’s Mix of Teen Angst and Deeper Emocial Woundedness, Her Performance Is Buoyed by the Woman Armund Her.
WHEN SHELBY AWKWARDLY Bursts Into Mr. Smith’s Classroom on Her First Day Back at School, The Audence Has Already Been Prepared for Her Arrival. After the charged encounter with Miss Gallagher, Ivy, Nell, Beth and Raelynnnnnnnnnnning their FIRST FIRST FIMINIST CLUB MEETING. A discussion of Twilight (WHICH RAEELYNN LOVES) and TAYLOR SWIFT (WHOM BET IS OBSESSED WITH) DEVOLVES INTO A GOSSIPSIP SESSIONSION WHERE The Other Girls Catch Nell Up on the Drama. Ralynn’s SHY DEFLECTIONS BECOME SHARPER AS The QUESTIONS ABOUT WHERE SHE STANDS WITH LEE TURN INTO ONES About her Relationship with Shelby. In the Sees Early Moments, Yoo Brings Her Character’s Fragality to the Surface with Doleful Expressions and A Withing Physicality, Which Makes The Confident Transformation SHEESTERGERGALLYLYLYLAly
And that’s True for All The Girls in John Proctor Is The Villain, For at it, Core Belflower Has Construced a Poignant Story of Girlhood and Empowering Friendsps. As Shelby Adjusts to the New Semester, She Reconnects with Her Friends, Especialally raelynn, and Shares More Informing About the Real Reason WHY SHE LEFT SCHOOL. There is some moments that slacken here, especialyly as Belflower works her way to the Twist, But with No Intermassion, The Play’s Frenzied Pace of La. (The Audence Audibly Gasped WHEN I SAW THE SHOW.)
It’s Fitting That John Proctor Is The Villain is running at the Same Time As All nighter (Off-Broadway) and Shortly After Nina (Off-Broadway), Two Shows that Concern the Interior Lives and Intimate Conversations of Young Women. Similarly to Those Plays, John Proctor Is The Villain Takes The Concerns of Its Characters Seriously. The Girls Distect Taylor Swift and Lorde’s Lyrics (The Two Musicians Are Crucial in this Production) The Crucible. I Thanks to these poop culture icons, whose music so skarely centers the imocial textures of growing up, that teenagers search for the women in miller’s text And be. Thought John Proctor Was A Hero.
Venue: Booth Theater, New York
Cast: Sadie Sink, Nihar Duvuri, Gabriel Ebert, Molly Griggs, Maggie Juntz, Hagan Oliveras, Morgan Scott, Fina Strazza, Amalia Yooo
Director: Danya Tayor
Playwrights: Kimberly Belflower
Set Designer: Amp FT. Teresa L. Williams
Costume Designer: Sarah Laux
Lighting Designer: Natasha Katz
Sound Designer: Palmer Heffrnan
Project Designer: Hannah Wasileski
Movement: Tilly Evans-Krueger
Prestened by Sue Wagner, John Johnson, John Mara Jr., Runyonland, Eric Falktein, Jillian Robbins, Jen Hogget, RIALTO PRODUCTIONS, CORTS GOUGH KENCH COHEN, THE SHUBER. Nederlander, John Gore Organization, Patty Baker, Cue to Cue Productions, Echo Lake Entertainment, Harris Rubin Productions, Klauusner & Zell, Jennifer Kraman, Mikey Leder. Productions, Nathan Winoto, The Cohn Sisters & Stifelman-Burkhardt, Astro Lab Productions, Creative Partners Productions, Sarah Daniels, Joan Rechnitz, Melissa Chamberlain & Michal Pietra & Steven Della Pietra, Newport & Smerigan, Jamie Deroy, Jaime Gleicher, Wes Grantom, Meena Harris & Jessica Found, Lamf, Corey Steinfast, Turchin Clements