Broken Glass (West End)
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 14, 2011
Closed Dec 10, 2011
Opened Sep 14, 2011
Closed Dec 10, 2011
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Phillip, obsessed with work and his own desire to assimilate, has little time for his wife, but when Sylvia suddenly becomes paralysed after reading newspaper reports of Kristallnacht in Germany, Dr. Harry Hyman is called in. As he gets closer to the source of Sylvia's affliction, a relationship develops that could have devastating consequences on the family, and themes of guilt, personal tragedy and love start to unfold.
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Though written in the 1990s, Arthur Miller's
Broken Glass, now being given a polished revival at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre, is a potent look at a couple whose relationship has been impacted by living in a world on the brink of World War II.
The play focuses on Phillip Gellburg (Antony Sher), a man whose complex feelings regarding his Judaism have insidiously infected his marriage. His wife, Sylvia (Tara Fitzgerald), obsessed with newspaper accounts of the abuse of the Jews in Hitler's Germany, has succumbed to a mysterious form of paralysis and can no longer move her legs. The couple's doctor (Stanley Townsend) believes her condition is psychological and attempts to unpick the re[...]