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Some Kind of Love Story
Some Kind of Love Story
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Author: Arthur Miller Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 47 Pub. Date: 1983 ISBN-10: 0822210533 ISBN-13: 9780822210535 Cast Size: 1 female, 1 male
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About
the Play:
Some Kind of Love Story is a one-act drama by Arthur
Miller. A private detective is determined to expose a miscarriage
of justice. He is convinced his fragile ex-lover holds the key to the
innocent man's release from prison. But she will not tell. Is he
ready for the truth? Arthur Miller hits back at the themes of justice and
the search for truth in a tale of deception, corruption, power and
abuse. Especially
recommended for school and contest use. Paired with
its companion one-act Elegy for a Lady with which it
constitutes a full evening of theatre as two halves of a double-bill
titled "Two-Way Mirror," this play can also be presented
independently with equal effectiveness.
Some Kind of Love Story is a thrilling yet tender gem
inspired by the 1940s and 50s film noir genre. Angela, a hard-bitten
call-girl, is visited by Tom, a private detective of long
acquaintance, who is convinced that she can supply information about
a murder case which, some years earlier, resulted in a miscarriage of
justice. As Tom plays on their former closeness, trying to draw out
the facts he seeks, Angela withdraws behind a schizophrenic screen of
multiple personalities ranging from a brazen creature named Leontyne,
to a shrinking violet called Emily, to a haughty English-woman named
Renata. Doggedly persistent, Tom does, in the end, break through the
fears which have driven Angela to hide the truth within herself. With
chilling intensity she pours through a tale of duplicity and
corruption and recounts how an innocent man ended up paying for the
crimes of others. As the play ends Tom offers to drive Angela to her
next assignation – relieved that his quest has ended but, at the
same time, disturbed by the knowledge that his worst fears have been
borne out.
Some Kind of Love Story premiered in 1982 by the Long Wharf
Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, where it was combined with Elegy
for a Lady. The combination of these two plays is
regularly performed as a double-bill entitled
"Two-Way Mirror," including its UK premiere in 1989 at The
Old Vic Theatre in London. Arthur Miller created a film noir
version of Some Kind of Love Story in his screenplay Everybody
Wins, starring Nick Nolte and Debra
Winger.
Cast: 1 female, 1 male
What people say:
"Mr. Miller's impassioned
beliefs pour forth." — The New York Times
"…couched in snappy, even
rough, and frequently quite funny language." — New
York Daily News
"An excellent, powerful play."
— The Guardian
About the Playwright:
Arthur
Miller (1915-2005) is considered one of the great American
playwrights. During the Depression, finances were scarce and he paid
for his college tuition by working as a shipping clerk in a New York
factory. He later wrote his first plays in college. With a career
that spanned over 50 years, he wrote more than thirty plays that
transformed American Theatre and proved to be both the conscience and
redemption of the times. His probing dramas received many awards in
his lifetime, including two Emmy awards and three Tony Awards for his
plays, a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Pulitzer Prize
for Drama in 1949, for Death of a Salesman.
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