Broken Glass Author:Arthur Miller Full Length, Drama - 3 men, 3 women — THE STORY:Brooklyn, New York. The end of November, 1938. Sylvia Gellberg has suddenly, mysteriously, become paralyzed from the waist down. As the play opens, her husband, Phillip, and her doctor, Dr. Hyman, meet to discuss the prognosis and test... more » results.
The doctor assures Phillip that physically, there is nothing wrong with his wife and that she is sane, but advises the only way to discover the cause of her paralysis is to probe into her psyche. At this point, the author begins to peel away all the layers of the characters’ lives in this stunning, deeply effective exploration of what it means to be American and Jewish in 1938. « less