Things are up in the air at Helen County High in rural Georgia—rumors are circulating about a student’s father, another student left behind her life and fled to Atlanta, and Mr. Smith’s junior English class has to get through sex ed before they can finally begin The Crucible. But what one man calls a witch hunt, a young woman calls the truth, and when the teenagers begin questioning what actually happened in Salem, everything threatens to change. A new play from a major new voice, John Proctor is the Villain depicts a generation in mid-transformation, feuled by pop music, optimism, and ferocity—writing their own coming of age story.