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| Broken Glass is at the Abbey Theatre Studio |
A COLLABORATION between the Company of Ten and the University of Herts continues into 2006 as the first production of the new year looms.
Third-year student in the department of graphic design and illustration at the university, Katie Riches, has designed the posters, flyers and programme covers for the production of Arthur Miller's Broken Glass which opens on January 27 and runs until February 4 in the Abbey Theatre Studio at Westminster Lodge, St Albans.
The play was written in the mid 1990s and Miller was rehearsing it at the National Theatre during the Balkan Wars. He described the major preoccupation of the play as the re-identification of a Jewish man in Brooklyn in November 1938.
It concerns a man and his wife who has recently become paralysed in her legs for reasons nobody can figure out. The play then investigates through a neighbourhood doctor what is causing the breakdown.
Miller added: "We learn how it is to be married in that time and how it is to live in that time with the rise of fascism in Europe and the paralysis of resistance to it. It's a tragic play but it's got a lot of jokes."
Tickets for Broken Glass can be obtained from the box office on 01727 857861.
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