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Theater review: Pioneer Theatre Company's JOHN PROCTOR IS TH...
A complex understanding of adolescent psychology fuels a drama that's as fun as it is smart.
BW Productions There’s so much depth and complexity to Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor Is the Villain (currently running in a Pioneer Theatre Company production at Westminster College's Courage Theater ) that it feels almost reductive to suggest that the reason it works as well as it does is that Belflower understands people—or, more specifically, that she understands teenagers.
A text that wrestles with patriarchy, literary criticism, intersectionality and the impacts of societal conservatism, among other topics, might never have worked if it hadn’t been so satisfying as a character study,…
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