Playwriting Tips: Arthur Miller 

Thanks for watching! You can find the next video in this series, in which I look at the work of Caryl Churchill, here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zZQKecYla6w.html

This is such a quality and interesting video. Thank you so much for being so informative in a capturing manner that makes me love this play even more. I would love to see more videos like these. I also really love how passionate you clearly are about dramatic literature, it's really a great thing to see.

Fabulous Fabulous - beautifully presented. Will be using this in my teaching and online English GCSE /A level tuition - so cool

Lovely piece Tom. Really informative and erudite. These vids are much needed on the tube.

You’re the reason I’m passing my theatre class. THANK YOU!

Great video mate. Well done. Thoughtful, useful and memorable.

Thank you very much! I was in need of some kind of motivation to read the play as the plot did not call my attention but your way of explaining the themes and characters made me want to read it as soon as possible so I'm on my way. I also loved your diction. Thanks again!

Hey Tom, this was really good! We did this play (and Death of a Salesman as well) for college, and we were more concerned about what you call the 'prescient, political questions' about social responsibility and financial profit. Be great to see some content on that, though the 'human' questions are far more intriguing. Great food for thought, thanks!

Loved this show when we did it. I played George, or Debbie Downer, as the cast came to calling me. I think one of the strangely richest moments I’ve been gifted on stage was the one-two punch George sustains of betrayals, first by Kate, when she spills the truth, and then by Annie when she wants to stay with /them/. Lord. What I wouldn’t give to watch D. Suchet as Keller!

Amazing ❤️ and brilliant 🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹 Thank you for your inspiring presentation ❤️

Excellent video. David Suchet does the American accent perfectly. Is the full production available on video?

Tom that was great!!! Thanks you are a great host.

Wow that's great!!! I totally understand the writer point of view and the whole plot. Thanks a million! Can you make a video for analysing the glass menagerie please.

excellent summary and analysis

Wonderful. Grazie.

The clips look like this production of "All My Sons" look wonderful. Is it on video anywhere?

Anyway, it’s a great video. I never really took that in before, the way that the past is brought to the fore as almost its own player. Would you place any sense of priority, then, in Miller’s treatment between the two conflicts of the past? Does Larry’s death play a more significant role than Keller’s role with the faulty engine parts, or can the two even be effectively separated for consideration in this way?

Cheers - you are good! I like it when I see your videos! Sat nam - Thank you for your gift to the world

Repression, self-deception, etc. Huge his this play. The Kellers repress that Joe is guilty. Ann and George repress that their father is innocent. Mother deceives herself to believe that Larry could, er MUST be alive*, that Ann also believes that, and that people can and should be pure and chaste, etc. The latters' repression is proximate to that of Joe's guilt, the fundamental problem she can't face. The neighbors and the doctor enable the family to continue their false beliefs, but for themselves it is not repressed. (*Magical thinking. And it is helped by the horoscope shit. Reminding me that Joe wants it to stop, sort of, but I feel that he hesitates because refocusses the question of his guilt elsewhere. But this is very important because we turn any "sign" into whatever we want to believe. The extreme power of the human intellect to lie to itself.)

Very nice analysis!

great video. could you do macbeth, gatsby or children of men asap? have my leaving cert in 14 days and need analysis!!!!

Thanks for that!

this was sooo good!!

Would have enjoyed that more without the harp

The tree metaphor is far too overt.

Urgh...i always cringe when i see the Dustin Hoffman version of Salesman. The guy is 25 years to young to play the part. It's frikkin awful.