The play takes place in the attic of a once prosperous Manhattan brownstone, soon to be pulled down in the cause of architectural progress and financial stability. How these men by the choices of their youth have come to be what they are. It is typical of Miller's approach here that nothing does, and nothing possibly could, happen in "The Price." The action has ended before the play starts, and we the audience have been brought here to listen to the explanations, to comprehend But, of course, the story itself is over. Miller holds the interest with the skill of a born story-teller. It is superbly, even flamboyantly, theatrical, running without an intermission, complying with the classic unities of time, place and action, and "The Price" is one of the most engrossing and entertaining plays that Miller has ever written. "You have to make decisions,"Īs one of the characters says here, "and you never know what's what until it's too late." Miller's plays so often have characters poised painfully, if metaphorically, between a plaintive "Ah but!" and Miller has most in common, the past is dotted with choices, and the results of these choices govern the present. As with Ibsen, the classic playwright whom Mr. "The Price" of the title is the legacy of the past. But regrettably-or so it seems to me-theĪuthor of "Death of a Salesman" is still waiting in the wings, unfulfilled. It is a play that will give a great deal of pleasure to many people and deserves a long and profitable run.
Behind them was the sincerity of an audience that had been deeply moved.Īt is own level of psychological problem drama it is indeed afar better than average example of the genre. New play "The Price" seemed more than an idle tribute. Yet at the Morosco Theater last night the cheers for Arthur Miller's Generally speaking, the reaction of a first-night audience to a Broadway play is as predictable as a wedding service-it always says "I do"-and therefore is irrelevant to report. Theater: Arthur Miller's 'The Price' By CLIVE BARNES
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