

Official confirmation of the production was announced by The Old Vic on 15 April in the form of this news article on their website. Here is a scan of the article in the print edition of The Daily Mail, with thanks to jh of the C19 forum: However, he is still in final discussions." "Armitage has had what were described to me as ‘several very exciting’ conversations with Ms Farber about how she plans to interpret Miller’s drama.

In response to a question on twitter, Baz said the deal was 99% and in his column in The Daily Mail he stated: The news was first broken on 11 April 2014 by Baz Bamigboye, Entertainment Columnist with the Daily Mail, who tweeted that Richard was in final talks to star as John Proctor. Yaël Farber's production of The Crucible ran for 12 weeks from Saturday 21 June to Saturday 13 September 2014 at The Old Vic theatre in London.

