Timebends (110 page)

Peter Wood's
American Clock
in Britain's 1986 National Theatre production: Judith Coke, Barry James, and Adam Norton.

Vanessa Redgrave and Melanie Mayron in
Playing for Time,
my 1980 teleplay based on Fania Fenelon's memoir of the Auschwitz women's orchestra. A stage version followed.

Clara,
Lincoln Center, 1987: Kenneth McMillan and James Tolkan; Gregory Mosher directed.

With Alan Ayckbourn, who directed
A View from the Bridge
at the National in 1987, and Michael Gambon, who played Eddie Carbone.

Roger Allam, Jane Lapotaire, and John Shrapnel in the RSC's
Archbishop's Ceiling,
1986; Nick Hamm directed.

ARTHUR MILLER
was born in Manhattan, New York City in 1915. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he beganwork with the Federal Theatre Project. His many award-winning stage plays include
The Man Who Had All The Luck
(1944);
All My Sons
(1947);
Death of a Salesman
(1949);
An Enemy of the People
(1950), adapted from Ibsen;
The Crucible
(1953), made into a film in 1996;
A Memory of Two Mondays
and
A View From the Bridge
(presented as a double-bill in 1955);
After the Fall
(1964);
Incident at Vichy
(1964);
The Price
(1968);
The Creation of the World,
and
Other Business
(1972);
The American Clock
(1980);
The Archbishop's Ceiling
(1977); the double-bill
Danger: Memory!
(1987);
The Ride Down Mount Morgan
(1991);
Broken Glass
(1994);
Mr Peter's Connections
(1998);
Resurrection Blues
(2002), and
Finishing the Picture
(2004). His prose writing includes
Focus,
a novel (1945);
The Misfits,
first published in 1957 as a short story and made into a film and published as a novel in 1961; a collections of shortstories,
I Don't Need You Any More
(1967); and three works of non-fiction,
In Russia
(1969);
Chinese Encounters
(1979); and
'Salesman' in Beijing
(1984), an account of directing his best-known play in China. He died in February 2005 aged 89.

FICTION
Presence • Focus • Jane's Blanket

DRAMA
Finishing the Picture • Resurrection Blues • Mr. Peters' Connections
Broken Glass • The Ride Down Mt. Morgan • Playing for Time
The American Clock • The Archbishop's Ceiling
The Creation of the World and Other Business • The Price
Incident at Vichy • After the Fall
A View From the Bridge • The Crucible • An Enemy of the People
Death of a Salesman • All My Sons
The Man Who Had All the Luck • The Golden Years

ONE-ACT PLAYS
The Last Yankee
Danger: Memory!: I Can't Remember Anything/Clara
Two Way Mirror: Elegy for a Lady/Some Kind of Love Story
Fame/The Reason Why • A Memory of Two Mondays
A View From the Bridge

SCREENPLAYS
The Crucible • Everybody Wins • The Misfits

ESSAYS
On Politics and the Art of Acting
Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays 1944-2000
The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller

COLLECTIONS
Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961 • The Portable Arthur
Miller
Arthur Miller's Collected Plays, Volumes I and II

NONFICTION
Timebends
(autobiography)
Salesman in Beijing
(with Inge Morath)
Chinese Encounters
(with Inge Morath)
In the Country
(with Inge Morath)
In Russia
(with Inge Morath)
• Situation Normal

ALSO AVAILABLE BY ARTHUR MILLER

 

Presence

Collected Stories

 

 

 

In his plays Arthur Miller took on the big themes of his day, putting stories of the Depression, wartime deceit and the McCarthy era on stage with an energy and passion not seen before and rarely since. In these stories he turns his attention to more intimate themes, yet still brings to bear the profound insight, humanity, empathy and wit of his plays. Including the early ‘I Don't Need You Anymore', the original story of ‘The Misfits' on which the film was based, and the beautiful late story ‘Presence', this collection offers a fresh perspective on the great writer and his work.

 

‘These stories are not just good, but good in a way that may well come as a revelation to Miller fans . . . A fascinating and salutary companion piece to his stirring public utterances'****

DAILY TELEGRAPH

 

‘Reveals a maturing talent that never stopped growing and evolving'

SUNDAY TIMES

 

‘‘An essential addition to the body of Arthur Miller's work, but it is more than that: it is an arresting self-portrait, unmediated by directors, actors, gossip columnists or biographers. The only thing wrong with it is that there isn't more of it''

GUARDIAN

 

First published in Great Britain 1987 by Methuen London

This electronic edition published in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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Foreword © Richard Eyre 2005
Afterword © Christopher Bigsby 2005

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