Digital Theatre came in early and sat in lots of different seats so they could see the best angles for shooting. It was done over three nights so they had three chances to capture what they needed. Tell us about how The Crucible was filmed I liked the idea that the audience were being attacked in that way. The raked seats in the stalls would vibrate. There was a sort of sonic pulse underscoring a lot of the play. Well, Richard Hammarton, who did the soundscape, worked in the rehearsal period with a frequency that made the seats vibrate. I’m not sure if the smells will be quite so prominent in the cinema screening! Maybe we should go round with bowls of incense… I deliberately didn’t wear any aftershave because I felt Proctor shouldn’t smell of anything other than the farm. Samantha Colley, who played Abigail, always washed her hair with the same shampoo and that smell became very familiar to me. Actually, we did a lot of work with sensory triggers in the rehearsal room. It’s one of those things you become acclimatised to night after night.
Richard, I can still smell The Crucible months after seeing it.
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