Arthur Miller
Playwright Arthur Miller, the creator of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, has died at the age of 89.
BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4258065.stm)
Death of a Salesman is a great play
Powerhungry Chipmunks
11-02-2005, 20:29
*Holds personal moment of silence for Arthur Miller.*
Korarchaeota
11-02-2005, 20:34
"A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between." from The Crucible
"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -Dubya
The Black Forrest
11-02-2005, 20:35
Wow. I thought he was gone already!
RIP Arthur and thanks for the great readings!
Boonytopia
11-02-2005, 23:20
A great playwright & he nailed Marilyn Monroe. An ispiration to non-athletic god types everywhere.
Davistania
11-02-2005, 23:39
Yes, surely a genius, surely well-liked.
"You cannot eat an orange and throw away the peel- a man is not a piece of fruit!"
You Forgot Poland
11-02-2005, 23:47
Dammit, somebody beat me to the Monroe thing. I was going to say that after that, heaven's kind of second-best.
Ah! I told the same joke at DiMaggio's funeral!
Los Banditos
11-02-2005, 23:48
Sad day for theatre...
The Zoogie People
11-02-2005, 23:53
I'm reading The Crucible for class right now. That is truly the most depressing thing I've ever read. He was a good playwright.
I've always wondered how he got Marilyn Monroe, though.
"...and I mean to crush him UTTERLY if he has shown his face!" <- I love this quote.
Mizololand
11-02-2005, 23:58
Arthur Miller's plays were the only compulsory one's on Mizololand's curriculum. A sad day for theatre.
Sam Ayorinde
Minister for Education
Super-power
12-02-2005, 00:15
In the spring I'm actually supposed to do a presentation on him...
Boonytopia
12-02-2005, 00:15
:p Dammit, somebody beat me to the Monroe thing. I was going to say that after that, heaven's kind of second-best.
Ah! I told the same joke at DiMaggio's funeral!
Woo-hoo, first time I've beaten someone to a post! Usually by the time I've read the thread others have already made my point at least three times. I can now die a satisfied man. :p
Swimmingpool
12-02-2005, 00:37
He was a legend.
World wide allies
12-02-2005, 00:38
A truly sad day.
'Death of a Salesman' and 'The Crucible' were great.
Shinzawai
12-02-2005, 09:14
I owe that guy one...The Crucible got me top marks in English last year, definitely the get out of fail free card.
Great guy, very couragous.
Dauphina
12-02-2005, 09:25
the crucible was a great play. i think bush should watch it.
Cannot think of a name
12-02-2005, 09:32
When you're just studying english as a requirement especially, but even when you start studying playwrighting, it's easy to look and go 'yea yea, thats the cannon, those are the good works' without much. Death of a Salesman and Crucible, I know they are good-but that they where good was so thouroughly underlined that the realisation is not so much my own.
Then I saw A View from the Bridge, a play where a man takes in his wifes Sicilian cousins. A romance between one of the cousins and the niece that Condone is a little too protective of causes a visible tension. The other cousin asks if Condone can lift a chair, a calm and still cordial. Condone can't do it. The cousin can. In one action, one display, the stakes of the whole act where underlined, and the act ended.
It sucks a little ass with me describing it, but it was signifigant in how I approached my work. Thanks Arthur Miller.
The stage is live. He'll always be there.