A fire, a fire is burning!

The Crucible is one of those rare plays that grows more urgent with every generation and, having left the HSC syllabus, becomes a powerful anchor for Year 11 students toward a profound understanding of dramatic storytelling. Arthur Miller’s masterpiece refuses easy answers, challenging students to navigate the dangerous intersection of truth, fear, power, identity and reputation. Why do communities create scapegoats? How does ideology overwhelm reason? When does silence become complicity? And what is a name really worth?

This Performance Symposium places language, argument and moral choice centre stage, revealing the extraordinary theatricality beneath the text’s intellectual rigour. The Crucible is a live act of critical thinking and Sport for Jove’s Symposium on the text, led by Damien Ryan, is theatre that doesn’t simply illuminate the play—it can inspire and challenge the way students read it and respond to it.

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EDUCATION PERFORMANCE DATES

Wednesday 12 May 2027 at 1pm

EDUCATION TICKETS & PRICING

$35 ea
1 teacher free for every 20 students booked.

SUITABLE FOR YEAR 9 – 12 (Stages 5&6)

Curriculum Links

English Year 11 & Drama.

Includes comprehensive Student Resource Kit with a detailed textual analysis.

Students meet dramatic literature’s exploration of fear, power, justice, integrity and mass hysteria live in performance; deepening understanding of dramatic form, characterisation and theatrical conventions while encouraging critical discussion of historical context, authorial purpose and the continuing relevance of the play’s political and moral questions. An invaluable resource for both English and Drama students.

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Accessibility

In English.

Wheelchair accessible.

Companion Card accepted.

Assistive Hearing system available (FM).

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