National Theatre to stage The Crucible with Erin Doherty and Brendan Cowell

Revival of Arthut Miller's allegory is part of a new season featuring The Boy With Two Hearts and a 40-week tour of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The National Theatre in London is to stage Arthur Miller's classic play The Crucible in a revival which its artistic director Rufus Norris says will explore what it means to confront power in a time of political and social divide".

The Crucible will be directed by Lyndsey Turner in the National's Olivier theatre, which has not presented Miller's historical drama since 1990. A revival of this story of mass panic and collective delusion seems particularly timely," observed Norris, who said it would make for a darkly thrilling production".