THE PROJECT
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This was one of the projects that I most enjoyed to work on. The students were assigned to design the cover for one of five famous play titles written by American playwright Arthur Miller: The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge and After Fall. The title I chose was The Crucible, a play about focuses on the inconsistencies of the Salem witch trials and the extreme behavior that can result from dark desires and hidden agendas.

OUTCOME
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The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. Miller was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.

The hero image of the cover is a burning church. While the church represents the faith in God, holy spirit and humanity, the blazing flame stands for the power of hatred and passion, the firestorm of emotion and the meltdown of humanity during the witch trials. The room with the light on at the top of the building can be interpreted as something wrong that is going on but unnoticed by everyone else.