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Miller's scripts are very detailed.

Act Two

The common room Proctor's house, eight days later.

At the right is a door opening on the fields outside. A fireplace is at the
left, and behind it a stairway leading upstairs. It is the low, dark, and
rather long living-room of the time. As the curtain rises, the room is
empty. From above, ELIZABETH is heard softly singing to the
children. Presently the door opens and JOHN PROCTOR enters, carrying his
gun. He glances about the room as he comes toward the fireplace, then halts
for an instant as he hears her singing. He continues on to the fireplace,
leans the gun against the wall as he swings a pot out of the fire and smells
it. Then he lifts out the ladle and tastes. He is not quire pleased. He
reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into the pot. As
he is tasting again, her footsteps are heard on the stair. He swings the pot
into the fireplace and goes to a basin and washes his hands and
face. ELIZABETH enters.

Act Three

The vestry room of the salem meeting house, now serving as the anteroom of
the General Court.

As the curtain rises, the rom is empty, but for sunlight pouring through two
high windows in the back wall. The room is solemn, even forbidding. Heavy
beams just out, boards of random widths make up the walls. At the right are
two doors leading into the meeting house proper, where the court is being
held. At the left another door leads outside.

There is a plain bench at the right we hear a prosecutor's voice, JUDGE
HATHORNE'S asking a question; then a woman's voice, MARTHA COREY'S replying.