This past weekend, my partner and I saw a play on campus called "John Proctor is the Villain." It's going up on Broadway next spring as well! The show was really good, it's about a high school English class in rural Georgia that's reading "The Crucible" and also dealing with the rise of the #MeToo movement with some students starting a feminism club.
One of the students just broke up with her long-term boyfriend of seven years because he slept with her best friend Shelby, who no one has seen in the six months since then. Shelby reappears though, and then accuses their English teacher of having a relationship with her and having sex with her. So there's a clear comparison between the play where John Proctor is being accused, and this English teacher. In the conversations about the book, the female characters talk about how Proctor is kind of a dick and never apologizes for what he does to the women around him.
Anyways, this was such a good and fun play. The playwright captures the way that high school girls talk to each other and their classmates really well, and I loved the parallels between the play and their high school. There are plenty of really silly moments as well, I loved their classmate Mason who is a high school himbo but learns about feminism over the course of the play. It's a really fun time, I hope many people are able to appreciate it when it goes up in NYC!
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