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The Heaviness of Memory in Arthur Miller's "The Price"

by Hilton Als

Arthur Miller's "The Price" (in revival at the American Airlines, under the direction of Terry Kinney) premièred on Broadway in 1968, four years after Miller's other mid-career plays "After the Fall" and "Incident at Vichy" were produced at Lincoln Center. What drives each of the three works is memory, and how it can twist or reveal the truth, making unreliable narrators of us all. Victor Franz (Mark Ruffalo) is a f…

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 5:00pm on March 16, 2017