Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the
disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a
damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a lost life of
affluence he's finally come to sell. But when his brother Walter, who he
hasn't spoken to in years, arrives, the talk stops being just about
whether Victor's been offered a fair price for the furniture, and turns
to the price that one and not the other of them paid when their father
lost both his fortune and the will to go on ...
Fraught, but cut through with humour, The Price is one of Arthur Miller's finest plays.
American dramatist Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy The Grass Still Grows. His major achievement was Death of a Salesman, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. The Crucible was aimed at the widespread congressional investigation of subversive activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony Award. Miller's autobiography, Timebends: A Life was published in 1987.