Broken Glass
From: Thursday, 30th September 2010
To: Saturday, 27 November 2010
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Synopsis
Powerful drama about a New York Jewish family during the Nazi rise in Germany. Part psychological puzzle and part romance, Broken Glass stands alongside All My Sons and Death of a Salesman as one of Arthur Miller's most powerful works. Brooklyn, 1938. Sylvia Gellburg is alarmed by the rise of Hitler in Europe, but how does this explain her sudden and mystifying paralysis? No one can help her - least of all her work-obsessed husband. When Dr Hyman takes on her case he finds himself playing a dangerous game where his interests are more than just professional.
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Terri Paddock - 7 October 2010
Arthur Miller’s lesser-known late play takes its title from Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass” when the Nazis rampaged through the Jewish community, destroying properties and triggering the first mass deportations to concentration camps.
Written in 1994, the story is set in November 1938, in the days just after Kristallnacht. In Brooklyn housewife Sylvia Gellburg is horrified by newspaper reports from Germany. Her husband Philip, boastful of being “the only Jew ever” to succeed at a leading Wall Street bank, shrugs his shoulders over the “Nazi carryings-on” because, really, “what can be done about such things?” – it’s nothing to do with him.
Except, of course, as always with Miller, it is. The political becomes personal when Sylvia is suddenly paralysed. A distraught Philip seeks help from Dr Hyman, who diagnoses Sylvia’s condition as psychosomatic and sets about administering a talking c...
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Simon Cooper - 14 October 2011:
An unforgettable experience in the theatre, thanks to perfect production and great acting....
Cast
Antony Sher (Philip Gellburg)
Emily Bruni (Harriet)
Lucy Cohu (Cylvia Gellburg)
Nigel Lindsay (Dr Harry Hyman)
Madeleine Potter (Margaret Hyman)
Brian Protheroe (Stanton Case)
Creative
Arthur Miller (Author)
Tricycle Theatre (Producer)
Iqbal Khan (Director)
Mike Britton (Design)
Matthew Eagland (Lighting)
Tom Lishman (Sound)
Grant Olding (Music)
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