Broken Glass by Arthur Miller

Williamstheatre continues its celebration of the works of Arthur Miller with his provocative Broken Glass, directed by David Eppel. Broken Glass, nominated for the 1994 Tony for Best Play, is a play about awakenings. In America, the melting pot in which, as Tony Kushner points out, nothing melts, our paralysis in the face of catastrophe is a function of our freedom. We live with restricted country clubs along Long Island Sound, as we do with things that happen “over there” in Homs, or Srebrenica, or Kigali. Broken Glass is “a kind of spiritual detective story,” says the New York Times (25 Apr. 1994), “one person’s blindness can affect another’s vision. Convulsions can seize a crowd. And what is the Depression that serves as a backdrop for so many of his works, if not a failure of the country’s immune system?”