Word: elias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AFTER THE FALL is a nightlong session of group therapy conducted for his own self-justification by Arthur Miller, with special attention to his mother and his wives, notably Marilyn Monroe. Elia Ka- All times E.S.T. zan's staging is electric, but Miller has not put enough distance between his life and his craft to fashion a play. It alternates in repertory with Eugene O'Neill's MARCO MILLIONS and S. N. Behrman's BUT FOR WHOM CHARLIE...
...Elia Kazan put a capsule review of his screenplay in a terse scrap of dialogue. Stavros Topouzoglou, trying to explain his feverish yearning for America, tells his fiancee, "You have to be what I am to understand." To understand the movie intimately you must be Elia Kazan or one of his relatives. America, America is a gigantic home movie, constructed from family stories about migration to the Promised Land. Kazan himself was born in Turkey, and he fervently wants his film to remind us "that we are all immigrants and that we all came here looking for something." The pity...
AFTER THE FALL is a nightlong symposium on guilt and self-justification conducted by Arthur Miller in terms of his mother and wives, notably Marilyn Monroe. Elia Kazan's staging is electric, but Miller has not put enough distance between his suffering and his craft to fashion a play. Alternates, in repertory, with Marco Millions...
AFTER THE FALL. In a play dexterously staged by Elia Kazan to represent the ebb and flow of events in memory, Playwright Arthur Miller examines the women who (he believes) have done him wrong and the wrongs he did them. The play's closeness to Miller's life belongs more properly to exhibitionism than to art, and it is naggingly self-absorbed in the importance of being Arthur...
AFTER THE FALL. In a play dexterously staged by Elia Kazan to represent the ebb and flow of events in memory, Playwright Arthur Miller examines the women who (he believes) have done him wrong, and the wrongs he did them. The play's close ness to Miller's life belongs more properly to voyeurism than to art, and it is naggingly self-absorbed in the importance of being Arthur...