Mr. Peters' Connections (Methuen Modern Plays) (Methuen Drama Modern Plays) - Softcover

Miller, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413747301 ISBN 13: 9780413747303

Publisher: Methuen Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

The new play by Arthur Miller, which received its UK premiere at Almeida Theatre in July 2000 America's greatest twentieth-century playwright takes us on an unforgettable journey through one man's mind. Miller places Mr Peter in a twilight world of dreams and memory, "in a space where the living and dead may meet". In addition to encounters with his loving wife, their daughter, Rose, and her boyfriend, Leonard, Peters also revisits his old lover, Cathy-May, and his resentful brother, Calvin, both of whom are long dead. But Miller's most original creation - and a creation of Peters' imagination - is Adele, a bag lady, who represents an incomprehensible black presence on the margins of the city's existence. Caught in this suspended state of consciousness, Peters' mind is free to roam "from terror of death to glorying in one's being alive."The greatest American dramatist of our age" (Evening Standard)

About this title

Product Description:

Paperback. Good. Black remainder mark on edge of pages, there are marks on cover and general wear to edges.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0413747301
• ISBN 13: 9780413747303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 47