Arthur Miller .. The Arms Trade in America
By:
Lec. Muslim Mohammed Lehmood
Continuing Education Center,
Al-Mustaqbal University College,
Babylon , Iraq.
Arthur Miller is the most famous playwright of the drama in the world, especially that his play "The Death of a Salesman" is one of the classics of modern theater, and one of the masterpieces that blended expressive realism brilliantly literal great, made the play on many theaters in the whole world, including the Syrian theater when directed about ten years ago, Mohammed Tayeb, and then returned in 1982. Miller received the attention of the British, the British National Theater presented him the important play "The Death of a Salesman" and "Crucible" and the second quoted by Jean-Paul Sartre for a film entitled “Witches of Salem”, but the beginning of Miller in the theater was through the melodrama, and the most famous melodrama Chana, along with the real melodrama in his marriage and then divorce from Marilyn Moreno and suicide, is "all my children" This play, which was revived on an active theater in central London, and achieved a very great success on it , Like a fresh freshly composed.
The play, when Miller wrote it, came as a slap against McCarthyism in America. Miller was one of those persecuted. The investigation was filed for days by the National Security Committee on charges of communism and anti-nation activity. But he did not stop, the investigation was going to draw him to disclose certain names, but he refused to do. I once saw a long TV interview with Miller, in which I discovered the sense of theater and humor of the famous writer. There is controversy over the extent of Miller s talent of playwrights and critics, as compared to O Neill, Audits and Williams. Of course, the melodramatic writer knows the secrets of the profession, but the number of his superior plays are few, and very few, and even these are not without obvious workmanship, and as a master craftsman knows the secrets of his profession, without reaching the work of art. Perhaps the biography of Miller after the tragic suicide of Morno, which many of the beauty and art lovers of his gritty Miller, the best evidence of this. Miller then wrote one major play, "The Price," which almost does not repeat the repetition of some of its atmospheres and former figures. He did not write any drama for his wife Marilyn, but wrote a screenplay for her film co - starring with Clark Gable entitled "The Raptors."
His other new plays, such as "The Arch Shop Roof" and "The American Wall Clock," were echoed and echoed by the Americans.
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The play "All My Children" revolves around the family of Gokkeller, a successful businessman, who was rich in the trade of spare parts of warplanes,
who lost his son pilot in an unfortunate accident, and sentenced his aide and his partner and the father of his late fiancé s son sentenced to prison, because he neglected to report invalid spare parts caused Twenty-one pilots were killed. In front of the mother, refuses to recognize the death of her son, and cling to the illusion that he will return one day, so she strongly rejects the love arising between that the fiancé of her missing son - and her other son Chris, and opposes the project of their marriage. The conflict intensifies when a brother who, after visiting his father in prison, also opposes the marriage, is interested in Joe Keller as the real culprit in the deaths of the pilots, but he survived the judiciary and signed his partner in his place. The tragedy is complete with a letter revealing that from her missing fiancé, he told her that he discovered what his father did for profit from selling corrupt parts that led to the death of a number of his fellow pilots, and that he could have been one of them. , I offer it. The impact of the disaster on the mother, who was resisting her suspicion for a long time, denying the death of her eldest son, because the killer in this case will be the father himself. Joe Claire enters his house, firing a bullet at his head, ending his life with his hand.
The play of its time was and may still be a human slap directed at arms dealers, who in fact trade in people s lives. The curse haunts Joe Keller in this contemporary melodramatic tragedy, replacing how much Miller wanted to replace the Greek and Shakespearean tragedies. The torment of conscience did not enable the father to pursue his quiet and stable life, blaming the crime on his poor partner, justifying his act as a guarantee of a better life for his family. He caused his son to commit suicide, and a crime of national treason, for money. Perhaps in this play a lesson of moral late for the likes of Joe Keller, but the arms trade good and good together spread to other countries in return for abundant material profit.
The play was directed by Australian-born director Michael Blackmore, an ancient director whose life began as an actor, and then turned to directing. Blakemore has made many notable successes in the theater world. He directed "Who Feared Virginia Woolf" to Olbi, "Orto Ore" to Brecht, "Long Day Trip at Night" by O Neill, "Wild Hero" Lapsen, and dozens of other plays. Blackmore directed plays in the United States, Denmark, Australia and other countries.
The main role of the play, shared by famous actors of Shan, as the role of Joe Keller who is the Irish origin, but he played with some touch comic darling, through which it is not clear deceived as a man with two lives and two faces to the end. Perhaps the director intended to this to be the impact of his play stronger, especially as it can be deduced what will happen by the spectator intelligent. However, the impact on the spectators was insufficient, the actor tried only aptly and perfectly to be a normal performance.
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The greatest performer was Rose Mary Harris in the role of mother. I have made the character alive, vibrant and honest, as the most realistic performance on the approach of Stanislavsky. Feelings and emotions were driving their delicate movements that shook the spectators from the depths in the moving moments.
The young boy Chris, acted the role of the second son . Garrick Hagon, an actor with prominent theatrical and film roles, including his participation in the films "The Message" and "Star Wars." He enjoys a quiet, confident and capable presence on the stage, and is very far from exaggeration or movement, as a result of his experience in theater and cinema together, and like him in tranquility and balance with less presence, Jill Parker was in the role of the fiancée of the deceased son and the beloved son, who wanted to find her real happiness away from illusions. The whole presentation was very good as a perfect revival of a realistic play, everything was drawn to provide a perfect picture of the realistic psychological theater, and critics agreed on the success of the show to achieve this end. The decor, designed by Hayden Griffin, like the facade of Joe Keller s country house and the trees, and the apple tree branch, a symbol of the lost son for the mother when the gale broke it, was very convincing.
The directing plan adopted building relationships of personalities and their psychological dimensions in a profound and sincere manner. The director and the actors turned away from any unnecessary cries, trying honestly, (Miller himself was invited to London to witness it) .The fourth wall theater was presented in its old traditional form, as were the plays of Chekhov and Ibsen. The subject is only contemporary, so that the play does not address kings, princes and nobles, but ordinary human beings like us their dreams , ambitions , frustrations and sins. The events take place in front of Joe Keller s house and the name here is significant. But the dominant craft of Miller makes his production closer to elaborate plays, with stark melodramatic witness, rather than contemporary tragedies, as a dream and wanted.
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