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Danger: Memory! Two Plays: I Can't Remember Anything; Clara
In "Danger: Memory!" Two contrasting but thematically related one-act plays, I Can't Remember Anything and Clara, are concerned with remembrance. The first play portrays the shared and disputed recollections of two elderly friends, and Clara dramatizes the resistance to brutal present-day fact when a young woman's father speaks with a detective investigating her murder. Like all of Miller's plays, Danger: Memory! holds the powerful emotional charge and social perceptions associated with his work while reaching for one of the fundamental issues of mankind, the selective amnesia of the past.
68 pages, paper
First published January 1, 1986
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Arthur Miller
538 books3,183 followersWorks of American playwright Arthur Asher Miller include
Death of a Salesman
(1949), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and
The Crucible
(1953).
This essayist, a prominent figure in literature and cinema for over 61 years, composed a wide variety, such as celebrated A View from the Bridge and All My Sons , still studied and performed worldwide. Miller often in the public eye most famously refused to give evidence to the un-American activities committee of the House of Representatives, received award for drama, and married Marilyn Monroe. People at the time considered the greatest Miller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...
This essayist, a prominent figure in literature and cinema for over 61 years, composed a wide variety, such as celebrated A View from the Bridge and All My Sons , still studied and performed worldwide. Miller often in the public eye most famously refused to give evidence to the un-American activities committee of the House of Representatives, received award for drama, and married Marilyn Monroe. People at the time considered the greatest Miller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...
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June 5, 2010
خطر، خاطره را حسن ملکی ترجمه کرده و در سلسله انتشارات "نسل قلم" در 1376 منتشر شده است
Most of Arthur miller’s plays such as “A View from the Bridge”, “The Crucible”, “All My Sons”, “Death of a Salesman” etc. are categorized as modern tragedies; the struggles of the everyday man; social American tragedies, focusing on the dark side of the American dream. “All my Sons” is a classic play, about guilt, responsibility, and the relationship between fathers and sons in the aftermath of a World War II corruption case, when two brothers come together to dispose of their parents' estate, their divergent attitudes and dispositions become increasingly accentuated: “Price”. Exploring the intersection between one man's self-delusion and the brutal trajectory of fate: (A View from the Bridge). Revealing the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association, but placed the outrage of McCarthyism in historical perspective: (The crucible). An anguished consideration of mortality and the gulf between men and women: (Elegy for a lady). Re-creating Dante's hell inside the gaping pit that is our history and populates it with sinners whose crimes are all the more fearful because they are so recognizable: (Incident at Vichy). A darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question; What would happen if Christ were to appear in the world today: (Resurrection blues). A casual, warm-spirited and innocuous musical chalk talk whose future is likely to reside with amateur church and synagogue theater groups: (Up from Paradise). So simple in style and so inevitable in theme, where Miller has looked with compassion into the hearts of some ordinary Americans and quietly transferred their hope and anguish to the theatre: (Death of Salesman). A superb drama though Miller says; "…a love story between a man and his son, and... between both of them and America"!
Though Miller’s works have always some social-political back ground in one or another way, but plays such as; “The archbishop’s ceiling” are referring directly to political issues (political situation in East Block in 1950’s and 60’s.) He has also plays which are less interesting; “A Memory of Two Mondays”, “Danger: Memory”; “I can’t remember anything”, “Clara”, “After the fall”, “Some kind of love story”, “The Last Yankee”, “Broken Glass”, “The Creation of the World and Other Business”, “The Ride Down Mount Morgan”, “American Clock”, etc.
Most of Arthur miller’s plays such as “A View from the Bridge”, “The Crucible”, “All My Sons”, “Death of a Salesman” etc. are categorized as modern tragedies; the struggles of the everyday man; social American tragedies, focusing on the dark side of the American dream. “All my Sons” is a classic play, about guilt, responsibility, and the relationship between fathers and sons in the aftermath of a World War II corruption case, when two brothers come together to dispose of their parents' estate, their divergent attitudes and dispositions become increasingly accentuated: “Price”. Exploring the intersection between one man's self-delusion and the brutal trajectory of fate: (A View from the Bridge). Revealing the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association, but placed the outrage of McCarthyism in historical perspective: (The crucible). An anguished consideration of mortality and the gulf between men and women: (Elegy for a lady). Re-creating Dante's hell inside the gaping pit that is our history and populates it with sinners whose crimes are all the more fearful because they are so recognizable: (Incident at Vichy). A darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question; What would happen if Christ were to appear in the world today: (Resurrection blues). A casual, warm-spirited and innocuous musical chalk talk whose future is likely to reside with amateur church and synagogue theater groups: (Up from Paradise). So simple in style and so inevitable in theme, where Miller has looked with compassion into the hearts of some ordinary Americans and quietly transferred their hope and anguish to the theatre: (Death of Salesman). A superb drama though Miller says; "…a love story between a man and his son, and... between both of them and America"!
Though Miller’s works have always some social-political back ground in one or another way, but plays such as; “The archbishop’s ceiling” are referring directly to political issues (political situation in East Block in 1950’s and 60’s.) He has also plays which are less interesting; “A Memory of Two Mondays”, “Danger: Memory”; “I can’t remember anything”, “Clara”, “After the fall”, “Some kind of love story”, “The Last Yankee”, “Broken Glass”, “The Creation of the World and Other Business”, “The Ride Down Mount Morgan”, “American Clock”, etc.
December 20, 2020
Just awful. Two acts of “who cares?”.
February 8, 2017
Michael O’Halloran, the director of Avenue Stage in Dorcester, contacted me about possibly doing something at the Edinburgh Fringe - a very exciting prospect! We got together to read a few short plays, among them this Arthur Miller play, 'I Can't Remember Anything'. I got it from the library and read in preparation. It is about and old man and woman who clearly have known each other for a long time. She visits him daily his austere cabin. They are both a crotchety, they reminisce about old times their real connection is through the woman’s husband, who was a charismatic engineer and the man’s friend and mentor. The dialogue is interesting and, not surprisingly, well written. In the edition I got from the library the play ends with the women leaving the house as we see the pattern of their relationship continuing unchanged into the future, and an acknowledgement of the concern and care they have for each other.
Imagine my surprise when I went over to Michael's to sit down with my other mates, Jennifer Jones, Eunice Simmons, and Michael's wife and kids, Miss Mary Mac, Molly and Jack, to read the play together. Michael had the Samuel French edition. As we read I could see there were a few minor differences, but the end was a complete surprise. The old man says that his doctor tells him that he is suffering from anxiety and needs to reduce the stress in his life, that she is the cause of this stress and she cannot visit him so often (we have found out that she visits him in the morning and evening of each day). A jarring ending - I'm still figuring out which one I like more. It’s a good play and
The characters, the man especially, have that crusty old yankee essence of which I am so familiar. The setting itself, described by Miller as: ‘…a nondescript ittle wooden house on a country back road. A wood burning stove near a handmade plywood table, some canvas folding chairs..’ reminded me of my uncle Robert’s house – particularly the detached building h had across the road form his house, which he named ‘the rooster loft’ The man’s wry humor matched my uncle’s very closely.
Looks like we will start rehearsing this soon and perform it in April at the Dot2Dot Café in Dorcester. Looking forward to working again with Michael and Jennifer.
The second play in the book, ‘Clara’, also deals with memory. The scene is an apartment, we eventually find out that a police detective is gently questioning a man, who we find out is the father of a woman who was murdered. She was a socially active and has been helping ex-cons reintegrate into society. Evidently the suspect of her murder is her Hispanic boyfriend, an ex-con who went to jail for murdering a former girlfriend. The father is in shock, and the detective gently plies him with questions. The father slowly recovers his memories, his history with the daughter and how he had encouraged her to help people. He also finds that he may share some guilt in her murder and his own experiences with race. An interesting play – there was a television production of it, perhaps I will try to get it.
I am trying to read 30 books this year, this only counts as my second and it is mid February, so I need to get busy!
2nd book -68 pages - 430 pages cumulative in 2016
Imagine my surprise when I went over to Michael's to sit down with my other mates, Jennifer Jones, Eunice Simmons, and Michael's wife and kids, Miss Mary Mac, Molly and Jack, to read the play together. Michael had the Samuel French edition. As we read I could see there were a few minor differences, but the end was a complete surprise. The old man says that his doctor tells him that he is suffering from anxiety and needs to reduce the stress in his life, that she is the cause of this stress and she cannot visit him so often (we have found out that she visits him in the morning and evening of each day). A jarring ending - I'm still figuring out which one I like more. It’s a good play and
The characters, the man especially, have that crusty old yankee essence of which I am so familiar. The setting itself, described by Miller as: ‘…a nondescript ittle wooden house on a country back road. A wood burning stove near a handmade plywood table, some canvas folding chairs..’ reminded me of my uncle Robert’s house – particularly the detached building h had across the road form his house, which he named ‘the rooster loft’ The man’s wry humor matched my uncle’s very closely.
Looks like we will start rehearsing this soon and perform it in April at the Dot2Dot Café in Dorcester. Looking forward to working again with Michael and Jennifer.
The second play in the book, ‘Clara’, also deals with memory. The scene is an apartment, we eventually find out that a police detective is gently questioning a man, who we find out is the father of a woman who was murdered. She was a socially active and has been helping ex-cons reintegrate into society. Evidently the suspect of her murder is her Hispanic boyfriend, an ex-con who went to jail for murdering a former girlfriend. The father is in shock, and the detective gently plies him with questions. The father slowly recovers his memories, his history with the daughter and how he had encouraged her to help people. He also finds that he may share some guilt in her murder and his own experiences with race. An interesting play – there was a television production of it, perhaps I will try to get it.
I am trying to read 30 books this year, this only counts as my second and it is mid February, so I need to get busy!
2nd book -68 pages - 430 pages cumulative in 2016
November 30, 2014
its beautiful story
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