Nicholas Hytner’s gripping adaptation of the McCarthy-era Arthur Miller play about the Salem witch trials, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder. Nicholas Hytner’s gripping adaptation of the McCarthy-era Arthur Miller play. In Salem, Massachusetts, John Proctor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his wife Elizabeth (Joan Allen) are innocent of charges of witchcraft, but John has committed adultery with former serving girl Abigail (Winona Ryder), who attempts to implicate Elizabeth, hoping she’ll be reunited with her lover.