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Lincoln CentreNew York

1964

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Viking Press, New York

1964

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Play/Drama

12

11

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Notes: -

Synopsis: As Howard Taubman outlines the play: "At the outset Quentin emerges, moves forward and seats himself on the edge of the stage and begins to talk, like a man confiding in a friend. In the background are key figures in his life, and they move in and out of his narrative. The narration shades into scenes, little and big. They are revelations and illuminations. They remind Quentin of an awkward young girl whom he made proud of herself. They bring the tortured image of his mother's death and another of his mother's fury with his father, who lost all in trying to save a floundering business. They crisscross through his relations with a number of women-the first wife who wanted to be a separate person, the second who drove him into a separateness and a possible third who knew, as a German raised in a furnace of concentration camps, that 'survival can be hard to bear.' These intertwining images bring back the memories of inquisition when men were asked to name names of those who had joined with them in a communism party.

New York

1947

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Reynal, New York

1947

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Play/Drama

6

4

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Synopsis: The story concerns the fortunes of the Keller and Deever families. During the war Joe Keller and Herbert Deever ran a machine shop which made aeroplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. Keller, however, went free and made a lot of money. The twin shadows of this catastrophe and the fact that the young Keller son was reported missing during the war dominate the action. The love affair of Chris Keller and Ann Deever, the bitterness of George Deever returned from war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, are all set in a structure of almost unbearable power. The climax showing the reactions of a son to his guilty father is a fitting conclusion to a play which is electrifying in its intensity.

Spoleto Fetival, NC

1979

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

1983

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Adaptation

15

9

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Notes: from Hard Times by Studs Terkel

Synopsis: A brilliandy theatrical, kaleidoscopic view of America during the early years of the depression. At the centre of the action are the Roams, a wealthy family whose fortune has vanished in the stock market crash but whose story is amplified and illuminated by brief glimpses of other characters' lives. Moving deftly from scene to scene, some funny, others poignant, the play ultimately becomes a deeply moving evocation of a fascinating period of American history and of the indomitable spirit of its people.

Kennedy Center, Washington, DC

1977

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

1984

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Play/Drama

3

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: The setting is an ornate room in a former Archbishop's palace in an Eastern European capital, a room which has probably been bugged by the secret police. The central character is a middle-aged author, Sigmund, who, having embarrassed the current regime, -is faced with the choice of detention and punishment or defection to the West. He is encouraged in the latter by two of his former friends, also writers, his compatriot Marcus, an ex-political prisoner now in favor with the regime, and Adrian, a visiting American with strongly liberal ideals. The situation is complicated by the presence of Myra, a poet and actress, who has been the mistress of all three. It is the complexity of the relationship of these four, the inextricable interweaving of politics, art and sex, and the constant uncertainty as to whether what they say may be overheard that makes for a rich and deeply intriguing play - and one which, in the final essence, raises questions not only about morality and individual responsibility.

Booth Theatre, New York

1994

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Penguin Books, NY

1994

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Play/Drama

3

3

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Notes: Methuen Drama, London >>>

Synopsis: Arthur Miller's first play to focus specifically on deeply disturbing American Jewish problems - assimilation, self-hatred and terrified awareness of the Nazi threat to European co-religionists

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in Danger! Memory!, Methuen, London

1983

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Play/Drama

3

1

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Notes: -

Synopsis: a powerful and moving drama in which an aging father is forced to come to grips with the crushing reality of his daughter's senseless murder. Grilled relentlessly by a dispassionate detective, the father is unable to bring his memory into focus until, in the trenchant monologue recalling a disquieting incident from his wartime experience, the past suddenly clarifies the present and, relieving the father's tortured conscience, unlocks the damning evidence the detective has been seeking

New York

1972

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Viking Press, New York

1973

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Play/Drama

8

1

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Notes: musical version entitled Up From Paradise.

Synopsis: Dividing his play into "three questions on the human dilemma," the author begins with a charming and gently humorous retelling of Adam and Eve (and God) in the Garden of Eden. After their expulsion from paradise, Eve gives birth to Cain, watched over by a scheming Lucifer - who seeks to share the power of a God now angered by the errant ways of his creations. In the concluding portion of the play, with mounting dramatic intensity, Cain kills his brother, Abel, and is sent out as a wanderer, as the final dilemma is explored: "When every man wants justice, why does he go on creating injustice?". Throughout the action, which alternates scenes of sprightly humor with absorbing confrontations between God and Lucifer and God and his fallible creations, the striking pertinence of the play becomes ever more clear. It is a parable for our time, and all time, rich with philosophic insights and alive with vivid theatricality. An important and remarkable play by a master dramatist which, with eloquence and compassionate humor, goes to the very roots of human guilt and responsibility: the Biblical struggle between God and Lucifer, with Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel as their pawns.

New York

1953

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Viking Press, New York

1953

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Play/Drama

10

10

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Puritan purge of witchcraft in Old Salem; allegory.

Lincoln Centre, New York

1987

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

1986

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Two 1 Act Plays

One Act

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Notes: includes I Can't Remember Anything and Clara

Synopsis: about the danger of remembering and the danger of forgetting

New York

1949

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Viking Press, New York

1949

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Play/Drama

8

5

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Notes: Certain Private Conversations In Two Acts And A Requiem. A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty, Winner of the 1949 Tony Award for Best Play

Synopsis: The last days of a failing salesman, who seeks to find out, by a tragic series of soul-searching revelations of the past life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, just where and how he has failed to win success and happiness.

New Haven Connecticut

1982

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1982

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One Act

1

1

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Notes: part of Two-Way Mirror

Synopsis: A Man enters a small boutique, hoping to find a suitable gift for his young mistress, who is facing a grave operation. Unaccountably he quickly finds himself confiding in the Proprietress, speaking without hesitation of the pain he feels at having his telephone calls to his loved one unreturned, of his fear that her condition may be fatal. The Proprietress consoles him, suggesting that perhaps she wants to spare him, that she needs to face her ordeal alone and without added burden that his involvement would impose. As they speak specters of other deep-seated concerns arise: the difference in age between the Man and his mistress; his unfulfilling marriage; the emptiness of material success without love to enrich it; the void that might have been filled had there been the possibility of children; the frustration of being unable to make a true and total commitment to another person. It is almost as though the Proprietress might be - or has become - the absent mistress. As the play ends the Man and the Proprietress embrace, two strangers grateful for the small miracle which, if only for a brief moment, has let them share closeness always hoped for but seldom achieved.

Lincoln Center, NYC

1950

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Viking Press, New York

1951

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Adaptation

13

3

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Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. Methuen Drama, London >>>

Synopsis: A small Norwegian town has just begun to win fame and wealth through its medicinal spring waters. Dr Stockmann, resident physician in charge, discovers that the waters are poisoned. On receiving proof of this, he immediately reports to his associates, the town officials most immediately affected. The Doctor is shocked to find that instead of being thanked, he is looked upon as a dangerous crank, motivated by a desire to prove that his fellow townsmen are wrong, and to bring ruin upon them. As the people who run the local paper and the town officials (among them close relatives and friends of the Doctor) do their utmost to urge secrecy and compromise, the determined Doctor realizes that the honesty and idealism he has counted upon to make the truth prevail, simply do not exist in the face of selfish "practical" interests. The press will not report his findings; the officials refuse to give him a hearing; he loses his position and the townspeople boycott him and ultimately his wife and children are cut off from all contact with friends and neighbors. Almost every weapon of offense and abuse is brought to bear against the family - blackmail, slander, and eviction from their home. But all the time the Doctor, morally supported by his family, carries on his magnificent fight for the truth. At the end the townspeople, gathered outside the home which the Stockmanns must soon leave, cast stones through the windows. Stockmann addresses his family: "But remember now, everybody, you are fighting for the truth and that is why you're alone. And that makes you strong"

New York

1970

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Fame in "Yale Literary Magazine", New Haven, Connecticut, March

1971

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Two 1 Act Plays

One Act

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Synopsis:

Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL >>>

2004

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Play/Drama

-

-

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Notes: -

Synopsis: a distinguished director is about to lose his picture due to the unstable behavior of a famously fragile movie star. She's recognized all over the world, loved by millions, but unable to believe in herself. The studio owners are threatening to pull the plug, and a temperamental acting teacher is flown in to coax the actress out of bed and onto the set. This fable of the perversion of the American Dream could only come from one of America's greatest living playwrights, Arthur Miller

BBC Radio 3

1987

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in Miller Plays 4, Methuen, London

2000

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Play/Drama

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Notes: Written in 1940 The Golden Years remained unperformed for many years and was finally presented as a radio play by BBC Radio 3 in 1987

Synopsis: an historical tragedy about Montezuema's destruction at the hands of Cortez. Unable to convert the Aztecs, Cortez assumes the role of barbarian, ravager of a civilization while Montezuma "convinced himself that the strange white creatures who came out of the ocean were fated to be his masters and at the same time apotheosize him to godhood now that he had, as he believed, led his Aztecs to the conquest of all the known world" (Miller)

Ann Arbor, Michigan

1936

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Play/Drama

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Notes: -

Synopsis: centers around a strike and contrasting views of the economy, but focuses on an individuals inability to express himself

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in Danger! Memory!, Methuen, London

1983

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Play/Drama

1

1

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Notes: -

Synopsis: a gentle, poignant study of two old friends, an elderly man and woman, who live in nearby houses and often take their meals together. She is a wealthy widow whose life seems to have come to a stop after her husband's death; he is a retired draftsman, a doctrinaire Communist who was her husband's best friend despite the radical differences in life styles and political outlook. Both lament the passing of better days, the lack of contact with loved ones, and the loss of memory which clouds the meaningfulness of the time left to them

Lincoln Center, NYC

1964

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Viking Press, New York

1965

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historical play

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20

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Notes: Methuen Drama, London >>>

Synopsis: Nazi oppression in occupied and free France, the good guy is the man of conscience and the bad guys are, of course, malicious people who proceed from anti-humanist principles.

New York

1991

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1991

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Play/Drama

2

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: A poignant look at two couples where the women share an overwhelming sense of despair, and the men try to bring them back to the lives they've fled.Two men, one in his late-forties, the other twenty years older, meet in the waiting room of a New England state mental health facility only to discover that they have done business together in the past. Inside the facility, each of their wives recovers from a nervous breakdown. Leroy Hamilton, a descendent of founding father, Alexander Hamilton, has spent his life as a highly skilled carpenter. His wife, Patricia, the daughter of Swedish immigrants and herself the mother of seven children, cannot reconcile what she considers to be Hamilton's deliberate under-achievement with her own family's grasping attempts at assimilation and affluence. Purposefully foregoing her anti-depression medication for a number of weeks, Patricia has begun to display a new clarity of thought that promises to shatter irrevocably the status quo of her life with Hamilton. The older, more affluent couple, share an equally tense marriage despite their prosperity. Karen Frick, though, has gone farther down the path of no-recovery than even the more frequently hospitalized Patricia. As roommates, Karen and Patricia have been sharing stories about their husbands-and the final meeting between them all, demonstrates the price and rewards of even strained marriages.

New York

1944

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in "Cross-Section 1944", Fischer, New York

1944

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Play/Drama

8

2

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Infused with the moral malaise of the Depression era, the drama centers on David Beeves, a man whose every obstacle to personal and professional success seems to crumble before him. But his good fortune merely serves to reveal the tragedies of those around him in greater relief, offering evidence of a capricious god or, worse, a godless, arbitrary universe. David's journey toward fulfillment becomes a nightmare of existential doubts, a desperate grasp for reason in a cosmos seemingly devoid of any, and a struggle that will take him to the brink of madness.

New York

1955

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Viking Press, New York

1955

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Play/Drama

-

-

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Notes: -

Synopsis: Dramatizing a compacted group of memories passing over several years, Arthur Miller's vivid comedy-drama portrays the nature of life during America's Great Depression. The emphasis is on mood and characterization as Miller draws on his own personal experience to evoke what the 1930s were like for workers to whom a job--any job--was everything

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Penguin, USA

1999

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One Act

5

3

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Notes: Methuen Drama, London >>>

Synopsis: A girl's world is changed by a hermit who carries the dreams of the world in a sack.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

1937

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Play/Drama

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Notes: subsequent revised versions also known as They Too Arise and The Grass Still Grows. Miller wrote this book during the spring break in 1936 (his sophomore year). This was his first work (reportedly because of a contest offering a $250 prize, which he won).

Synopsis: draws very directly on his family life. It opens in the parlour of six room house where the Simons are an immigrant family, once successful but now fallen on hard times. The anxiously await the return of their son from University

San Francisco

1985

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Bantam, New York

1981

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Adaptation

4

18

extras

Notes: from work by Fania Fenelon, televised 1980

Synopsis: The extraordinary story of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz.

London

1968

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Viking Press, New York

1968

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Play/Drama

3

1

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Notes: -

Synopsis: In the attic of a soon-to-be-demolished house, two brothers meet after a 16 year estrangement to dispose of their dead parents' property. The first is a policeman who sacrificed his education and probably a career as a scientist to care for his ruined, invalid father. The other, who arrives late, is an eminent surgeon who walked out on the demands of family to concentrate on medicine and personal success. Their confrontation leads them to examine the events and qualities of their very different lives and the price that each of them has had to pay.

Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN, USA >>>

2002

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

2006

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Play/Drama

6

3

ensemble

Notes: -

Synopsis: High in the mountains of a South American banana republic, a revolution is brewing. When the rebels' messiah-like leader is captured, a New York production company swoops in to televise his execution - death by crucifixion - and an explosive chain of events ensues. Humorous, poetic and thought provoking, Resurrection Blues brilliantly satirises misguided global politics and the predatory nature of a media saturated culture.

London

1991

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

1991

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Play/Drama

2

3

1 musician

Notes: -

Synopsis: Centres around a selfish man, willing to take, while others around him are willing to give and turn a blind eye to suspicions.

New Haven Connecticut

1982

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1983

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