• The Price

6/14/26 (Sun), London

I caught this acclaimed London revival of Arthur Miller’s 1967 work on its final day. Victor, who gave up his scientist dreams to take care of his late father, is selling off the father’s furniture. The father was once wealthy, employing chauffeurs and rowing, but fell into hard times with the Depression and never recovered. Their prior wealth is symbolized by a large harp that hovers in the back, which their long-gone mother used to play. A furniture broker, an elderly Jewish man from the old country fittingly named Solomon, agrees to buy the entire lot for a fixed price. Just as he is about to pay Victor, the latter’s estranged younger brother Walter enters. Walter abandoned the father and family and became a successful doctor. He has not seen his elder brother in 18 years. Fireworks emerge as the brothers challenge each other over the paths that they have taken, the lies that have sustained them – and the price that each has paid.

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