Costume Designs by Katherine Garlick

Kathryn Garlick’s costumes work with the silhouettes of the period of the Salem witch trials, but they are not specifically of the period itself. The silhouette of the New England dresses, for instance, show up in fashion designs of the 1950s and other eras. The men’s clothing, too, varies and does not reflect any one period, while still suggesting the tone and style of the dress in 1690. The design attempts both to reflect the period of the play, while helping to move the characters and their actions beyond the specific historical moment. Like the scenic design and like the play itself, the costumes try to support the idea that the theatrical experience may work as metaphor, that the experience of The Crucible may tell multiple stories simultaneously, as poetry performed.

Betty Parris	Rev. SamParris	Tituba	Abigail Williams
Susanna Wallcott	Ann Putnam	Thomas Putnam	Mercy Lewis
Mary Warren	Giles Corey	Rebecca Nurse	Francis Nurse
Ezekiel Cheever	Judge Hathorne	Sarah Good	Herrick
John Proctor	Elizabeth Proctor	Rev. John Hale	Danforth

LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION:

• The Crucible homepage
• The People of the Production
• John R. Armstrong
• Costume Designer Katherine Garlic
• Press Release
• An Interview with Dan Kremer
• Arthur Miller, Joseph McCarthy, and The Crucible, an essay by Dramaturg Tom Shafer
• Documents on Poetry and Metaphor, prepared by Tom Shafer and Deanna Nichol
• An Artist of a Special Class, a pre-show lecture by Nick Cullather

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