Danger: Memory! Two Plays: I Can't Remember Anything; Clara

By Arthur Miller

Book Overview

In "Danger: Memory!" Two contrasting but thematically related one-act plays, I Can't Remember Anything and Clara, are concerned with remembrance. The first play portrays the shared and disputed recollections of two elderly friends, and Clara dramatizes the resistance to brutal present-day fact when a young woman's father speaks with a detective investigating her murder. Like all of Miller's plays, Danger: Memory! holds the powerful emotional charge and social perceptions associated with his work while reaching for one of the fundamental issues of mankind, the selective amnesia of the past.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394561023
• ISBN13: 9780394561028
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: The Grove Press
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Memory Problems

Danger: Memory! is a collection of obscure Arthur Miller plays that show a different side of Miller. The theme of flawed memory is the only tie that binds the two plays which have very different plots. "I Can't Remember" is a rare example of Arthur Miller's humorous side. In this play, an elderly window and her late husband's friend attempt to explore a past that alludes the woman. With a number of great one-liners, this is a great piece of work. "Clara" is a darker work about the investigation of a young woman's murder. In the investigation, the woman's father's memory fails him. He can not recall the name of the convict that his daughter was seeing. His daughter's ghost haunts his memory during the interviews of investigators as he explores the past amid insinuations and tangents. This is a great set for Arthur Miller fans. Only the brevity of the plays keeps them in obscurity.