Compare And Contrast The Crucible And Roberto Aguirre

The new sequel to the well known play, THE CRUCIBLE, was produced by truly talented casts of Hall High School last week. ABIGAIL/1702 was written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and is about the life of Abigail Williams 10 years after the events of The Salem Witch Trials. Though I do believe that seeing or reading THE CRUCIBLE would have made my experience more enjoyable, what I saw on Friday and Saturday night exceeded my expectations. At first I was sceptical about the idea of two casts. I did not think that both casts would portray the story the same way. I was correct, but in the opposite way that I was expecting. The two casts told the same story, but in unique ways. It is like making two chocolate cakes, but each having a different recipe. Friday night’s Abigail was a tad more
Though when I saw the play for the first time, I realized that the set that I saw was only a small part of the entire set. In addition to the the pox house that was set up with an amazing amount of detail with all of the little trinkets on the shelves, the lights and sound effects also added to the level of greatness. The colors of the lights would accurately match the mood of a scene or set the tone. This is essentially what lights are supposed to do in a play, but it is sometimes overlooked in small school productions. With regards to the sound effects, I was a bit taken aback by the real life aspect of it. Not in the way that I casually hear Satan’s whispers in the trees, but in a way that there was, for the most part, always some background noise. Not in a way that took away from the acting, but how the thunderstorm and the wind really set that important level of reality. It actually wasn’t until the wind stopped abruptly in one scene, did I notice the importance of it and how it balanced with the lines that were being