The Crucible Act Guide

Below are links to visual documentation for each act, reproducing and modifying Brecht’s practice of making ‘modelbooks’ to document his productions. You can also see some key sequences presented as short films here.

Act I

  • Consternation about Betty Parris

  • The girls conspire and Proctor arrives

  • The villagers return

  • Hale arrives and begins his investigation

  • Hale instigates the denunciations

Act II

  • At the Proctors’ home

  • The interrogation of Mary Warren

  • Hale visits the Proctors

  • The Arrest of Elizabeth Proctor

Act III

  • The Court proceedings open

  • The girls appear as witnesses

Act IV

  • Preparations for execution

  • The showdown between Elizabeth and Proctor

  • The end of Proctor