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The first thing an audience member will notice walking into the Burton-Taylor Studio for Arthur Miller’s Two Way Mirrror is how readily the set lends itself to intimacy and intensity. Working off a small space with a couple rows of seats either side, this production makes use of two excellent actors, a small number of […]
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The Two Way Mirror is an Arthur Miller production featuring two plays – ‘Elegy of a Lady’ and ‘Some Kind of Love’. Walking around the grounds in Magdalen with the Aimée Kwan, the director, and the two-man cast of Louisa Iselin and Saul Lowndes Britton, I have the chance to learn more about the ideas […]
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✮✮✮✮ Director Helgi Clayton’s production of Arthur Miller’s much-celebrated play depicts a harrowing ‘crucible’ of lust, jealousy, superstition, and moral corruption. The audience finds themselves immediately plunged into a world of screaming teenage girls, scandalous dancing and séance to allure the men they fancy. The use of the lighting and music was particularly effective, as […]
Continue ReadingRosie Carpenter ✮✮✮✮ “Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so that heaven’s vault should crack.” This Yaël Farber production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is worthy of comparison with Shakespeare’s King Lear in the sheer weight of its tragedy. The whole theatre draped in greying cloth (is that a wine or […]
Continue ReadingArthur Miller scripts are classics. Watching one of his plays is comparable to listening to The Beatles; A View from the Bridge is well-known, well-written and accessible but can easily flop in the wrong hands. As with most of the classics it has been done to death – making it the ‘Hey Jude’ of 20th […]
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