Brussels’ American Theatre Company has chosen a most appropriate time to revive Arthur Miller’s classic 1953 play The Crucible. When it was first staged, the American playwright’s version of the Salem witch trials was recognised as a thinly veiled allegory of contemporary fear-mongering, particularly as practised by notorious US senator Joe McCarthy. Now the right is once more on the rise and its demagogues are using the same tactics to scapegoat foreigners and other marginalised groups. The ATC production is directed by Christopher Flores.