“A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance — you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.”

— Arthur Miller

"The State of the Theatre" an interview by Henry Brandon in Harpers 221 (November 1960)

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playwright from the United States 1915–2005

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