After its successful World Record Attempt in February, Rubber Chicken Theatre in Dunblane is taking on a whole new challenge this month – its first ever full-length play.

The local social enterprise will stage Arthur Miller’s The Crucible from 24-26 March at Dunblane Christian Fellowship.

Creative Director Pamela Mackie said: “The Crucible is a modern American masterpiece. Intolerance collides with lust and superstition in a repressive Puritan community, fueling widespread hysteria and culminating in what would forever become known as the Salem Witch trials.

“As a company with its roots in musical theatre, this is a big step for us, and I really hope that you are all able to join us in Salem – we can’t wait to share it with you.”

The classic 1953 play was written by Miller as an allegory to McCarthyism, when the US government persecuted people accused of being communists, and has long been part of the high school curriculum.

Pamela added: “The Crucible is powerful, moving, and easy to follow, with themes as frighteningly relevant to our world today as they were both in 1690s Massachusetts and in Arthur Miller’s communism-fearing 1950s America.

“I know for lots of us it will be linked with long-ago English essays and battling through it in class. Live on stage it bears little resemblance to a schoolbook text.

“Our theatre is small and intimate, the energy is going to be quite something.”

Tickets priced from £10 https://rubberchickentheatre.co.uk/product/the-crucible