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In Broadway’s ‘John Proctor Is the Villain,’ Lorde, Taylor Swift & Pop Music Have Starring Roles
Pop music has a tangible presence in, and is intrinsic to the fabric of, Kimberly Belflower’s play John Proctor Is the Villain.
The story follows a group of girls from small-town Georgia who, amid the #MeToo era, are reading Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and starting to doubt that the titular protagonist is as morally upstanding as he’s often portrayed to be — just as a classmate and friend (played by Stranger Things star, and now Tony nominee, Sadie Sink) returns to town after a much gossiped-about absence. But two weeks later, a “yes” came through from the artist herself, saying she loved the letter (and that the initial “no” had just been due to a miscommunication between teams; while Lorde hasn’t seen the show yet, Belflower is hopeful that will change whenever she’s next in the city). In one scene between smart school and friend-group newcomer Nell and Mason, her male partner on a class Crucible project, she quotes one of the sections of “***Flawless” sampling Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “We Should All Be Feminists” speech.
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