![]() ![]() Victor doesn’t answer her when she asks him what’s up with all that instead, he focusses on the drink that Esther’s holding. Victor’s slim, dark-haired wife, Esther (Jessica Hecht), walks in on her partner laughing along with a laughing record, one of those novelty disks where two men try to have a conversation without cracking up. Victor slowly enters an old room filled with the relics of the past-a Victrola, chairs, a breakfront, and so on-and, of course, he is bemused and rueful and sad as he walks down memory lane, sometimes touching a piece of old furniture, or listening to a scratchy old record, because this is a realistic play by Arthur Miller, the author of “All My Sons” (1947) and “Death of a Salesman” (1949), elegies about hope made corrupt by the exigencies of living, and about how the past pulls at the present. ![]() He lived there with his brother Walter (Tony Shalhoub) and their now dead parents. He has returned to a brownstone in Manhattan-it sags, too-that’s about to be demolished it was his childhood home. police sergeant whose body and handsome face sag a little with regret. Victor Franz (Mark Ruffalo) is a fortyish N.Y.C. What drives each of the three works is memory, and how it can twist or reveal the truth, making unreliable narrators of us all. ![]() 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. ![]()
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