Plays & Pantomime
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A powerful and moving study of a contemporary man struggling to come to terms with himself and his world by probiong back into the revealing and often painful events of the past. Intertwining images of…
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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…
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A brilliantly theatrical, kaleidoscopic view of America during the early years of the Depression. At the centre of the action are the Baums, a wealthy family whose fortune has vanished in the stock market…
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A powerful and probing work exploring the dilemma of the creative artist in a totalitarian state. The play is set in a former Archbishop's palace in an Eastern European capital within a room which…
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Brooklyn, New York, 1938. Sylvia Gellbert has suddenly, mysteriously become paralysed from the waist down. When her husband Phillip and her doctor, Dr Hyman, meet to discuss the prognosis and test results,…
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A powerful and moving drama in which an ageing father is forced to come to grips with the crushing reality of his daughter's senseless murder. Grilled relentlessly by a dispassionate detective, the…
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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…
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This exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem is both a gripping historical play and a timely parable of our contemporary society. The story tells "how small lies - children's…
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Two related short plays by Arthur Miller which can be presented under this title when presented together on a single bill. See entries for <em><a href="https://www.josef-weinberger.com/plays-and-pantomime/play/clara.html">Clara</a></em>…
A probing examination of the myths of the self-made man, this Pulitzer Prize-winning play presents the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman who seeks to find out by a tragic series of soul-searching…
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A man enters a shop in search of a gift for his dying mistress. He gradually finds himself confiding in the shop's proprietress who, rather curiously during the course of their conversation, seems…
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A new and up to date version of this classic. The story centres on a small Norwegian town which has just begun to win fame and wealth through its medicinal spring waters. Dr. Stockmann, resident physician…
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, he is a retired draftsman, and both lament…
In the detention room of a Vichy police station in 1942, eight men have been picked up for questioning. As they wait to be called, they wonder why they were chosen. At first, their hopeful guess is that…
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A play in two parts which focuses on the relationships of two couples - Leroy and Patricia Hamilton, married many years with seven children, and John and Helen Frick, a childless couple. Both women are…
Miller's early American fable, which recently received its British premiere at the Bristol Old Vic and London's Young Vic Theatre tells the story of two brothers, David and Amos Beeves, and the…
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This is the shorter of two plays which were produced on Broadway under the generic title of A View from the Bridge. a one-act fragment about people who work in an automobile parts warehouse in the early…
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Harry Peters walks into an old club, greeting what may be an old friend or a long lost brother. The club brings back memories, or creates them, and even though he is not sure which, he is there for a…
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Josef Weinberger are delighted to announce the publication of Arthur Miller's first play, written for a playwriting competition in 1936 and not performed until 2015, <em>No Villain</em>…
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…
Two women meet in a hospital intensive care ward, after each learns of an automobile accident which has seriously injured their husband. The two visitors, unknown to each other, soon realise that it is…
A compelling study of two people destined by their mutual dependence to tear one another apart. Tom, a Chandleresque private eye, finds himself bound to the prostitute Angela whom he believes holds the…
Two related short plays by Arthur Miller which can be presented together under this title when produced on the same bill. See separate entries under <em><a href="https://www.josef-weinberger.com/plays-and-pantomime/play/elegy-for-a-lady.html">Elegy…
A modern classic, the central character is a longshoreman who, though of limited intelligence and articulacy, is an admirable man. When two of his wife's Italian cousins are smuggled into the country,…