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Not Your High School Crucible
Sadie Sink stars in John Proctor is the Villain, a Broadway comedy that upends the classic drama.
She found it “incredibly boring.” But her perspective has changed now that she’s starring in John Proctor Is the Villain, a comedy set in a conservative Baptist town about a group of teens who realize the witchcraft-accused protagonist isn’t a good guy. Her first big project since wrapping production on the final season of Netflix’s Stranger Things, Sink, 22, gravitated toward the authentic nature of the script, written by Kimberly Belflower ( Lost Girl and Gondal): “I’ll often read scripts for high-schoolers or young women that are trying to connect with my generation, but it’s rare to find the right fit for a writer who can capture that without dumbing us down.” “There was something about being back in the landscape where I grew up,” the playwright says, “and also with all what was going on in the news, where I was thinking a lot about my teenage self and things that happened at my high school.” Belflower was more of a homebody than a partygoer, often getting debriefed by friends who did go out in her rural Georgia hometown.
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