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After the Fall

After the Fall

Author: Arthur Miller

First Performance: 1964, New York

Published: 1964

Genre: Drama in 2 acts

Setting: Three-level stage dominated by the blasted tower of a German concentration camp

Cast: 8m, 7f, extras

Quentin, a lawyer in his forties, steps forward to begin a confessional to the audience, acting out scenes from his life, above all those involving the women he has known. He recalls how his late mother abused his father and lied to her son; how he helped a young star-struck divorcee; how he had difficulties coping with his first wife's need for independence. He is now half engaged to a German girl Holga, an archaeologist who is weighed down by her guilt about Nazi atrocities in the Second World War. He also summons up memories of his father, his brother, and friends, whose indictment by...

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