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Broken Glass
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'Broken Glass is a brave, bighearted attempt by one of the pathfinders of postwar drama to look at the tangle of evasions and hostilities by which the soul contrives to hide its emptiness from itself.' John Lahr (The New Yorker)
Brooklyn, 1938: Sylvia Gellburg is stricken by a mysterious paralysis in her legs for which the doctor can find no cause. He soon realizes that she is obsessed by the devastating news from Germany, where government thugs have begun smashing Jewish stores. But this experience is intermeshed with what he learns is her strange relationship with her husband Philip. When the two seemingly unrelated situations concatenate, a tragic flare of light opens on the age.
'His strongest play for many years, a gripping and at times powerfully affecting drama. As almost always in his work, it balances private lives with public morality...It is also an amazingly full-blooded piece, bursting with pain and passion.' (Charles Spencer Daily Telegraph)
Brooklyn, 1938: Sylvia Gellburg is stricken by a mysterious paralysis in her legs for which the doctor can find no cause. He soon realizes that she is obsessed by the devastating news from Germany, where government thugs have begun smashing Jewish stores. But this experience is intermeshed with what he learns is her strange relationship with her husband Philip. When the two seemingly unrelated situations concatenate, a tragic flare of light opens on the age.
'His strongest play for many years, a gripping and at times powerfully affecting drama. As almost always in his work, it balances private lives with public morality...It is also an amazingly full-blooded piece, bursting with pain and passion.' (Charles Spencer Daily Telegraph)
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viii
Broken
Glass
atmosphere
of
foreboding,
while
also
alert
to
its
nuanced
exploration
of
human
passivity
in
the
face
of
what
can
only
be
described
as
public
and
private
doom.
Highlighting
the
play’s
realistic
tableau,
the
director
later
adapted
his
award-winning
production
for
BBC
Television,
and
it
was
also
broadcast
in
the
US
on
PBS.
Thacker,
a
veteran
of
several
major
interpretations
of
Miller’s
work
in
England,
also
takes
credit
for
giving
the
author
his
final
title
for
Broken
Glass
;
earlier
incarnations
were
called
The
Man
in
Black
and,
simply,
Gellburg
.
Enoch
Brater,
2009
Broken
Glass
received
its
British
premiere
at
the
Royal
National
Theatre
on
4
August
1994,
with
the
following
cast:
Phillip
Gellburg
Henry
Goodman
Sylvia
Gellburg
Margot
Leicester
Dr
Harry
Hyman
Ken
Stott
Margaret
Hyman
Sally
Edwards
Harriet
Julia
Swift
Stanton
Case
Ed
Bishop
Directed
by
David
Thacker
Designed
by
Shelagh
Keegan
Lighting
by
Alan
Burrett
Music
by
Gary
Yershon
and
Andrea
Hess
Cellist
Andrea
Hess
This
page
intentionally
left
blank
Broken
Glass
This
page
intentionally
left
blank
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- Broken Glass
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