“It was difficult to pare it down,” says Schuyler. The Crucible Cocktail Collection is a selection of the five tastiest concoctions out of a list of more than 20 possible cocktails. Within a few days, the cast had picked out dozens of cocktail names drawn from the script. Greer, who is a member of the Bag&Baggage Resident Acting Company and a bartender at Bazi Brasserie in SE Portland, immediately started working on the recipe, but it didn’t stop there. “Cassie (Greer, the Assistant Director), Pete (Schuyler, who plays John Proctor), and I started laughing one rehearsal when Pete said ‘God’s icy wind will blow!’ and then paused and, with deadpan perfectness, said, ‘sounds like a cocktail.’” That’s why the cast and crew of Bag&Baggage’s production of Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible, ostensibly about the Salem witch trials but also an allegory for McCarthyism, have created a series of terror-suppressing cocktails inspired by some of Miller’s most iconic lines and phrases from the play.“In all honesty, rehearsing The Crucible is both physically and emotionally demanding there are only so many times you can accuse an innocent old women of magically murdering seven infants before you need a drink,” says artistic director Scott Palmer with his trademark wry (rye?) wit. Burning witches and getting riled up in mass hysteria is thirsty, stressful work.
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