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Broken Glass, by Arthur MillerThis award winning drama tells the story about Phillip and Sylvia Gellburg, a couple who live in Brooklyn New York in 1938. The play is fast moving in terms of the exquisite development of the story however tension grips throughout which slows time down a little. "The production is punctuated by an cellist who plays onstage, Laura Moody, performing a score by Grant Olding reminiscent of Elgar’s turbulent, grief-filled cello concerto. It greatly adds to the power of the production". Charles Spencer - Telegraph STORYPhillip, obsessed is a workoholic. His own desire seems to be a need to understand really anything at all. He has little time for his wife. Then quite suddenly Sylvia becomes paralysed. She had been reading newspaper reports of Kristallnacht in Germany. They call in their Doctor. Harry Hyman. The doctor becomes close with Sylvia to get closer to determining the source of Sylvia’s affliction- hysterical paralysis 'diagnosed' as down to her past as a young girl in anti-jewish Nazi Germany. . A relationship between them invariably develops that has consequences. The entire family are caught up in the guilt from recalled tragedies and so it goes on.
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