{"id":5258,"date":"2014-02-26T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T21:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2014-02-26T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T21:56:16","slug":"nicholls-players-present-the-crucible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/26\/nicholls-players-present-the-crucible\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholls Players Present &#8220;The Crucible&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIBODAUX \u2014The Nicholls Players theater troupe will present Arthur Miller&#8217;s award-winning play \u201cThe Crucible\u201d Thursday, March 13 through Saturday, March 16 in the Mary M. Danos Theater in Talbot Hall on the Nicholls State University campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Crucible\u201d tells the story of the Salem witch trials, exploring themes of mass hysteria and the dangers of scapegoating. The play was written and first produced in 1953 as an allegory for the McCarthy era, when U.S. Sen. 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