The Lure
After the success of Death of a Salesman, Hollywood beckons to Arthur, where a chance meeting with a young actress called Marilyn Monroe changes everything. By Jonathan Holloway.
2. The Lure
The second of four plays marking the centenary of the great American playwright, Arthur Miller.
By the time he was 35, Arthur Miller had a very eclectic CV. He was the son of an illiterate Jewish immigrant, whose once flourishing coat business had failed during the Depression. He'd worked nights in an auto-parts warehouse, been a dock-yard worker, a jobbing writer for Orson Welles, a prize-winning student playwright, and a writer of radio drama for Roosevelt's Federal Theatre Project. He was a communist activist and a highly skilled carpenter. In 1950 Death of A Salesman, directed by his good friend Elia Kazan, became a major Broadway hit. By that time Miller was the father of two children and had been married to his college sweetheart, Mary Slattery, for ten years. Now Hollywood beckoned, where a chance meeting with Marilyn Monroe would change everything. Written by Jonathan Holloway.
Producer for LA Theatre Works: Susan Loewenberg
Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson and Myke D Wysekopf
Sound by Mark Holden, Wes Dewberry, and Catherine Robinson
A Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ/Cymru Wales and LA Theatre Works Co-Production, directed by Kate McAll
LA Theatre Works is a non-profit audio drama company based in Los Angeles that records classic and contemporary plays. They have been collaborating with the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ for nearly thirty years, beginning with a production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible that starred Richard Dreyfuss and Stacey Keach.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Narrator | Ed Harris |
Arthur Miller | Geoffrey Arend |
Mary Slattery | Devon Sorvari |
Dolores Donovan | Alexis Jacknow |
Elia Kazan | Raphael Sbarge |
Marilyn Monroe | Heidi Dippold |
Harry Cohn | Hector Elizondo |
TWA Announcer | Andre Sogliuzzo |
Director | Kate McAll |
Writer | Jonathan Holloway |
Broadcasts
- Tue 13 Oct 2015 14:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
- Tue 13 Oct 2015 14:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 LW
- Wed 2 Aug 2017 14:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio: Full details of the Arthur Miller Season on Radio 3, 4 and 4 Extra.
Life and Times of Arthur Miller cast members Heidi Dippold, Ed Asner and Devon Brand.