Arthur Miller's best work?
Arthur Miller's best work?
Jezebel
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#0Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:07pm
What is your favourite Arthur Miller play?
I've just seen a fantastic production of "A View from the Bridge", and it has now overtaken "Death of a Salesman" as my own personal favourite. How have the productions you've seen changed your view of the play as it is read?
Updated On: 8/21/05 at 06:07 PM
#1re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:10pm
Marrying Marilyn Monroe.
No, I really do like THE CRUCIBLE.
Beergoggles
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/05
#2re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:41pmThe Crucible is supposingly the greatest play ever written (or so i've been told)! I think Death Of A Salesman is superb... i saw a bad production of it but when i read it... completely different!
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#3re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 6:52pmAll my sons. A little lesser known work of Arthur Miller, but one of my favorite.
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TennesseeTwang
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#4re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 7:04pmGod bless you for actually starting a thread about straight plays!
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#5re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 7:05pmSalesman & every other play # 2
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#6re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:02pmAlthough I am not a fan of Miller (Williams is my favorite), I love The Crucible. For me, Death of... has been talked to death and done in so many ways that after seeing it tens of times, it loses its edge and becomes a little overdone. Still a great play, however. JSousa, I also think that All My Sons is a fantastic play. So my point is probably that I have no favorite but the above are probably three of his best works.
#7re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:04pmI like The Crucible the best. I saw All My Sons and I seemed to enjoy this one more. ^^;;
#8re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:10pmAll My sons. I really loved this play.
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stage_door76
Broadway Star Joined: 1/18/05
#9re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:34pm
i dont like view from a bridge at all
i like death of a salesman, but in my opinion, the crucible is without doubt his better work
"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending.
The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#10re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:38pmThe Crucible
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Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#11re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:41pmI read a lot of his work for a paper recently, no doubt, 'All My Sons' is my favorite by far.
#12re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:43pmI guess I'm the odd man out here, because I've never been wowed by THE CRUCIBLE. It's too blatantly an allegory of McCarthyism and the Red Scare, and John Proctor's over-the-top heroic speeches in the final scenes of the play are cringe-inducing.
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stage_door76
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#13re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:46pm
as much as i attempted to read what you had to say bluewizard, i just couldn't
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"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending.
The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
#14re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:53pm
I read and saw the film version of "All My Sons" and I loved it.
Loved it.
It's stellar.
Miller was a genius.
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#15re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 10:09pm
I've always thought Death of a Salesman was his best work.
I also found Crucible to be too much. Everytime I see it or watch it, I want to scream, "Yes! We get it! You're commenting on McCarthy-ism!" And Proctor's holier than thou speeches get on my nerves too.
#16re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 10:35pmWell...Salesman is considered a classic of his...I really like Crucible too.
#17re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 10:37pm
His best play is Death of a Salesman.
My personal favorite is After the Fall.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#18re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 10:58pmAnother underappreciated gem is THE PRICE. It's not a grand tragedy like SALESMAN, ALL MY SONS, or VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. No one dies. It's just a brilliant drama about sibling rivalry. One critic described it as "Biff and Happy - 25 years later."
#19re: Arthur Miller's best work?
Posted: 8/22/05 at 12:15amits between The Crucible and Death of a Salesman For Me (probably for a lot of people too) but I really did enjoy The Crucible the most, because of its representation of the McCarthy era
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