Synopsis
Danger: Memory! - Two Plays
$13
Published by Dramatists Play Service
She is a wealthy widow whose life seems to have come to a stop after her husband's death; he is a retired draftsman, a doctrinaire Communist who was her husband's best friend despite the radical differences in life styles and political outlook
Both lament the passing of better days, the lack of contact with loved ones, and the loss of memory which clouds the meaningfulness of the time left to them (1M, 1F)
The second play, Clara, is a powerful and moving drama in which an aging father is forced to come to grips with the crushing reality of his daughter's senseless murder
Grilled relentlessly by a dispassionate detective, the father is unable to bring his memory into focus until, in the trenchant monologue recalling a disquieting incident from his wartime experience, the past suddenly clarifies the present and, relieving the father's tortured conscience, unlocks the damning evidence the detective has been seeking (3M, 1F)
REVIEWS
"....two brilliant new one-act plays by Arthur Miller .... his ironically compassionate awareness touches all our lives" ~ The Hollywood Reporter
"Arthur Miller is the American Ibsen" ~ Time Magazine