John Proctor Is The Villain

A group of teenage girls makes an unsettling discovery after reading a celebrated American drama in class: The “hero” of the tale doesn’t match the person they see on the page. As the discussion turns to rumors within their own social circle, the girls confront the ideas of truth, heroism and villainy in a startlingly modern light. Set in a high school in Appalachian Georgia, this fiercely funny and urgent new work applies a youthful lens to a classic in the literary canon — questioning what it means when institutions protect men at the expense of girls’ safety and credibility.