John Proctor Is the Villain

A group of high school girls studying The Crucible begin to question the play's traditional reading, is John Proctor really the hero, or is he a predatory older man who exploited a teenage girl? Their classroom debate spills into their own lives as they confront sexual harassment, consent, and the gap between what they are taught and what they experience. The play reimagines a canonical American text through a contemporary feminist lens.