Atlanta First News
There is great disappointment for a group of Fannin County High School drama students.
“This was our last show of the year, and we didn’t get to perform our very last performance,” a drama student said.
For three months, they rehearsed for a production of The Crucible, a fictionalized account of the Salem Witch Trials. The show was canceled the day after their first performance.
“Originally, we were told that somebody made a complaint about the show that it was demonic and disgusting,” drama student Aiden McBee said. More
According to PJ Media, Fanning County is “deep, deep red” conservative. The production was cancelled over what the license holder declared a violation of copyright when the students added a “contextual scene” to the play. Whether the changes were offensive to the left or the right has yet to be reported. Here
If you sign a contract, in this case a copyright usage agreement, you have to actually do what you agree to do. Maybe the students’ changes were good, maybe they were bad, but that’s irrelevant.
Now, if the changes were little tweaks, and little tweaks are common, and the REAL reason is religious bigotry, that’s a whole different kettle of fish.
It’s high school. Why can’t they stick with family friendly plays like “My Fair Lady”…. Well, only if a genetically real girl plays the part…
They STEAL YOUR MONEY to fund government monopoly day prisons. THAT MUST STOP.
From what I read it looks like the adult typically in charge was relieved and the students had to work the production out for themselves. It also seems that they were assigned “The Crucible” which they really weren’t enthused about but did the best they could to bring it off in an interesting way.
I still haven’t seen any description of what was changed.
^^^^ My Fair Tranny doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Those kids missed out on all the fun they could have had by combining The Crucible and Inherit the Wind into a musical comedy. They could’ve had a chorus line of monkey witches!
The Crucible isn’t so much satanic as it is Communist propaganda. They are better off doing Guys and Dolls.
Next year: “Springtime for Hitler.”
Blazing Saddles is what they should have chosen.
Witch trials, hey?
https://youtu.be/nfJSWkX1C-s
Hang the witch!!
https://youtu.be/bqAPXSuEEms
(Viewer discretion advisory.)
As Tony R indicated, The Crucible was about the Salem Witch Trials like M*A*S*H was about the Korean War.
They violated the licensing agreement and lost the license. It’s as simple as that. Next!
Anyone else catch the Hoopla over “John Proctor is the Villian” that’s apparently up for a Tony this summer? Me either until I skimmed this article from the LA Times just now. The parallels are weird and yet the Aurthur Miller estate was enthusiastic about this reinterpretation of the Salem Witch Trials and Miller’s original play.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-05-21/kimberly-belflower-playwright-danya-taymor-director-john-proctor-is-the-villain-crucible
I was in The Crucible my junior year of high school. I played Deputy Governor Danforth and Judge Hawthorn (the two roles were joined together in our performance because the guy who played Hawthorn stopped coming to drama class).