The Price
From: Saturday, 16th January 2010
To: Saturday, 13 February 2010
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Synopsis
A story of the rifts, revelations and secrets of two brothers who have followed different paths in life. One is a highly successful doctor, the other a cop working the beat. The two have been briefly re-united and are forced to face up to their past and the price of the choices they have made. Old grudges fall onto the dusty attic floor in this powerful moving and amusing play.
Our Review:
22 January 2010
'The price that must be paid' is a theme that Arthur Miller tackles in several of his plays. In this 1968 work, two brothers, estranged for 16 years, meet to dispose of their late father's possessions. The price paid by Victor, the brother who stayed behind and sacrificed his dreams of being a scientist, is apparent. As is the price paid by their father, who lost his fortune in the Wall Street crash. On the surface, brother Walter, is hugely successful but as the play unfolds, the hollowness of success reveals how much he has paid.
In John Dove's moving and powerful production, the comedy is underplayed, but still hits home and he allows the tension to build as the weary, disappointed Victor spars with his wife, Esther, then with the old furniture dealer, Solomon and finally in a thrillingly played confrontation with his brother, in which they battle over the truth of the matter.
As Victor, Greg Powrie is terrific: at turns angry, protective, blustering, vulnerabl...
Creative
Arthur Miller (Author)
Royal Lyceum Edinburgh (Producer)
John Dove (Director)
Michael Taylor (Design)
Jeanine Davies (Lighting)
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