Taking full advantage of the Hub's stage and resources, this production of ARTHUR MILLER'S dramatisation of the Salem witch trials marks an excellent beginning for Broken Arrow Productions, an ambitious group of recent graduates, and establishes a tense, enthralling atmosphere from the start - the group of Puritan girls caught dancing to wild music in the dark forest by the Reverend Parris (JEREMY MCCABE, convincingly aghast).

Director LUCY HUGHES gives Miller's plot and characters their full weight, so we experience the terror of being forced to choose between the dogma of the times or the terrible consequences of trying to uphold the truth. Memorable performances include ANITA THOMSON as Abigail, malicious and powerful, SARAH DIVALL and ALEXANDER CURTIS, the Proctors, struggling to repair their damaged relationship, JAMES FORSTER, Reverend Hale, an honest man who realises his mistake too late, JOE CURRAN, Judge Hathorne, his self assurance turning to panic, and SALLY WHITE as Mary Warren.