Crucible Cast List

The Pig Keeper
It was 2015, and the cast list had finally been sent out. None of the movie-inspired dramatics of a posting outside the theatre door, just a quiet ping from the email inbox. “Crucible Cast List.” After scrolling past the usual politics about how “incredible everyone who auditioned” was and how much the director “wished she could cast more people,” I finally found my name. Anaïs Main - Martha Corey. Martha Corey. Three-lines Martha Corey. Smallest-role-in-the-show Martha Corey. One of my best friends got the role I wanted, and I was cast as the pig keeper. Nothing had gone wrong at auditions, in fact I later found out that the girl who was cast as the lead had thought I would get her role. Still, there I was the first rehearsal, …show more content…
The way to do this, as I saw it, was to be the most ridiculously reliable person they had ever cast. Show up early, help where I could, and memorise everyone’s lines so I could jump in at a moment’s notice. I had memorised the parts of ten other cast members by the time the director told me I was the understudy for the female lead.
It took me one week to learn those lines, carrying my copy of the script from class to rehearsal to under my pillow. After one frustrating rehersal that was not so much “off book” as “ask for each line one at a time,” with me in my chair taking notes, the cast was stopped by an angry director to work on memorization. So it was off to the corner again, script to a friend. This time, though, the stage manager was listening.
The next day, the full cast was met with a group meeting, and an announcement. I had a new role, the Reverend Hale, the previous Hale, who had memorized almost none of his lines, had quit. When questioned about how I would play the male minister when I am rather obviously not a man, the director answered “Hale’s a woman now. We don’t care about historical accuracy any more.” (This was a very trying show for our director.) Thus, through the pure power of my spite, I had a real role in the show, and a whole new set of lines to memorise by the next

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