DID YOU KNOW THAT NEW SMYRNA BEACH is called the Shark Bite Capital of the World? Neither did we—there were 8 attacks last year alone! And we didn’t have a clue that it would be so windy and the surf so rough. We picked this AirBnB because it’s just a few miles from the north entrance to Cape Canaveral National Seashore but it looks like there will be no fishing and most definitely no swimming! No problem—we’ll survive.
Last night found us at the Little Theater for Arthur Miller’s The Crucible—gotta support the local arts, right? The theater was indeed tiny and the cast decidedly amateur—this is community theater, after all—but the message was on-target. With the US election looming, the story is possibly more germane today than at any time since the play’s 1953 debut.
A Real Witch Hunt
Although Hollywood would disclaim, “…dramatization based on actual events”—in this case the 1692 Salem Witch Trials—Arthur Miller actually wrote The Crucible as a metaphor for the McCarthy “Red Hunt” Hearings of the 1950s. It’s almost as if he could foresee the deceit and false accusations that would surround Trump’s kidnapping of the Republican Party.