The Price

by Arthur Miller

Overview

Years after an angry breakup, Victor and Walter Franz are reunited by the death of their father. As they sort through his possessions in an old brownstone attic, the memories evoked by his belongings stir up old hostilities. The Price was nominated for two Tony Awards, including best play.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101664995
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/02/1985
Series:	Penguin Plays
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	917,602
File size:	435 KB

About the Author

Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock. He has also written two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. More recent works include a memoir, Timebends (1987), and the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1993), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season, and Mr. Peter's Connections (1998). His latest book is On Politics and the Art of Acting. Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Editorial Reviews

...one of the most engrossing and entertaining plays that Miller has ever written. It is superbly, even flamboyantly theatrical...

NY Times

...a challenging, gripping and moving drama.

Variety

...his finest drama since ...

NY Newsday

In this intimate and compelling drama, Victor and Esther Franz stand in the attic of Victor’s late father’s brownstone apartment building in the heart of New York City. The award-winning Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving bring such a familiarity and naturalism to these roles the listener can sense the stillness and the dust in the attic and feel the characters sifting through a lifetime of memories. When a 90-year-old Yiddish antique dealer and Victor’s brother, played with vocal realism and depth by Timothy West and Harris Yulin, come puffing up the stairs, a “price” is named for every family heirloom and every missed opportunity. The entire cast finds majestic sadness and life in every word of this classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Arthur Miller. American theater at its best. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

MAY 2014 - AudioFile