This image is part of The Old Vic’s The Crucible Teaching Assets Package here
Except for the figure, who appears to be John Proctor, it is almost identical to this:
Could be a representation of the meeting between John Proctor and Abigail in the woods ( the deleted scene), or is the woods in this case, one of its familiar metaphors for the uncivilized wild, sensuality, evil, or freedom?
Armitage Agonistes 
Reading the package was fascinating and enlightening. I did not know the story about Elia Kazan. That was a bit heartbreaking. The timing of that announcement seems to have been quite auspicious too.
Because the image comes just before this story, Into The Wilderness, I believe the man is Miller himself – or Miller as Proctor. Either way, the image has power. And I think every theater that does classic drama of the kind should now have something like this!
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I agree the figure could represent Miller, or the notion of his enlightening meeting in the woods. But the image itself is not a picture of Miller. I think it may be Armitage. Whoever it is, it is superimposed. Kazan and Miller never really reconciled and they sort of dueled it out in their respective biographies. There’s a great story Miller tells of the script for the labor film, The Hook, being submitted to the FBI by the studio, and the studio suit got back to him and said, something along the lines of, it’s fine – but can change the longshoremen to Communists? He refused, and we see the result in the fabulous On the Waterfront.
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I didn’t know that about “On the Waterfront,” Perry! I only saw it a couple of years ago, and it blew me away…. I may have to watch it again soon 🙂
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I’v been dicking around ( sorry) for a while now on a Crucible post and one thing I’ve found – so different from the classic and earlier writers we read – these modern guys talk about their work all the time – or anyway, Arthur MIller did, and he’s basically done most of the analysis on the play – now, if I just agreed with all of it! He’s told this story a number of times.
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Interesting, though, to see it again in that light, since I think I just stumbled onto it the first time. Thanks for the info.
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