The play itself, however, has not grown more cogent or likable with time." But Mayer has made most of the characters into caricatures-especially the women… Richard Hoover's sleek airline terminal is effective, and Michael Krass' costumes are all spot-on. Michael Mayer's highly stylized production starring a painfully miscast Peter Krause only makes it messier… It is hard to imagine this play working under any circumstances. Howard Kissel of The New York Daily News: "Arthur Miller's 1964 play After the Fall was always a mess. Unfortunately, Krause fails to dominate." Yet he is one of the great playwrights of our time, and his characters do emerge from the mists. Miller's apparent agenda of guilt and redemption, especially redemption, is soggy with the arrogance of crocodile tears. Even so, the action-which jumps from the Great Depression to the misadventures of fame-lacks continuity and even dramatic force or tension. He's avoided the pure abstraction of the setting by placing the action in Idlewild now JFK Airport… Miller/Quentin's stream of consciousness, at least at first, appears well-suited to the impersonal comings and goings of an airport although you start to wonder what an airline terminal has to do with the actual play and Mayer has made a few useful shuffles of scene.
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Staged as if it were a breezy period comedy about the war between the sexes-with a chic airline terminal set designed by Richard Hoover that evokes the recent con caper movie Catch Me if You Can-the production itself suffers from the depth-denying bad faith that the play makes a point of condemning."Ĭlive Barnes of The New York Post: "A classic it isn't… For this production, Michael Mayer-who directed the Roundabout's triumphant staging of Miller's A View from the Bridge a few seasons back-has treated the text very cleverly. Miller's View From the Bridge, also for the Roundabout Theater Company has done nothing to raise the evening's emotional temperature, unless you count feelings of irritation. And the director Michael Mayer who did well by Mr. Miller's 1964 drama of moral disillusionment, a play that is essentially one man's cosmic yelp. This is not a winning attitude to bring to Mr. Krause leads the audience through his character's life like a dutiful but bored student guide in a museum. But the text still feels lashed to its 1960s setting."īen Brantley of The New York Times: "As the rueful Quentin, a woman-bedeviled lawyer who bears the darnedest resemblance to a playwright named Arthur Miller, Mr. Ultimately, however, the musty psychology and standoffish protagonist prove insurmountable… Miller and Mayer have substantially reworked the play, removing some characters, softening others and shuffling the order which always was a bit harum-scarum, occurring entirely within Quentin's mind. He and director Michael Mayer, who collaborated to sterling effect on the similarly sprawling A View From the Bridge in 1997, have reined in some of the play's excesses and found in Peter Krause a leading man well suited to its navel-gazing nature. Here is a sampling of what they had to say:Įric Grode in his Review: "Audiences accustomed to the small-scale concerns frequently seen on Broadway will reel at the size of drama Miller has bitten off and his eagerness to chew it as probingly and self-indulgently as he can. The Roundabout Theatre Company revival, which features a revised script and stars Six Feet Under's Peter Krause and Carla Gugino, opened at the American Airline Theatre on July 29. Arthur Miller's After the Fall, which is said to be a partially autobiographical work based on the playwright's relationship with Marilyn Monroe, premiered on Broadway in 1964 and has not been back since.
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