Product Description

Set in Brooklyn, this gripping mystery begins when attractive, level-headed Sylvia Gellburg suddenly loses her ability to walk. The only clue to her mysterious ailment lies in her obsession with news accounts from Germany.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1818941 in Books
• Published on: 1995-10
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 92 pages

From Library Journal
Readers will be thrilled to learn that Miller is back after an absence of more than a decade. Broken Glass marks his return to Broadway, projected for this fall? The play is a little bit about being Jewish and a lot about sexual repression and sexual reawakening. Freud would certainly applaud it since it vindicates his theory that so many illnesses start in the bedroom. Broken Glass is a deceptively simple play with a cast of only six characters. However, the characters are fascinating and passionate, and the drama unfolds like a good novel. Librarians should buy this script not simply because the playwright is a legend or because it is likely to become a classic but because it is a sensitive and penetrating look at human frailties. It should be a part of every dramatic literature or theater collection.
- Jon P. Cobes, Central Wyoming Coll., Riverton
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

AudioFile
Sylvia Gellburg (JoBeth Williams) has stopped walking, and her husband, Philip (Lawrence Pressman), is determined to find out why. His only clue is her growing obsession with stories coming out of Germany about Nazi violence toward Jews. Setting his drama in Brooklyn, 1938, Miller uses the Nazi atrocities overseas as a mirror for the Gellburgs' troubled marriage and Philip's own inadequacies. He creates an intensely personal play, but one that lends itself to the kind of intimacy that audio theater excels in. As Dr. Harry Hyman (David Dukes) probes Sylvia and Philip's secrets, he probes ours as well. That is the mystery of audio after all: It's even more immediate than live stage. Like ripples in pond water, what happens in Germany happens to the Gellburgs and the audience as well, in the hands of these fine artists.