"I can feel that the audience are breathing his breath as they watch the play," Armitage said. Armitage says the "The Hobbit" is "a big machine that you get to play a little cog in." In "The Crucible," Proctor - decent, tormented and flawed - is the center of the audience's attention. The play recounts the mania that swept a community of colonists in 1692, which resulted in 20 people being executed for witchcraft.
The British actor - dwarf warrior Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson's "Hobbit" trilogy - is now starring at London's Old Vic Theatre as John Proctor, the decent man in a world gone mad in "The Crucible," Arthur Miller's modern classic about the Salem witch trials.
LONDON (AP) - It's a long way from Middle Earth to 17th-century Massachusetts, but Richard Armitage has made the journey - and found a surprising link.
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