Broken Glass by Arthur Miller – Axbridge Community Theatre – Alma Tavern Theatre

Axbridge Community Theatre will be at the Alma Tavern Theatre this April with Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass.

The ingrained antisemitism faced by the Gellburgs daily is bearable. But what happens when racist violence flares up on the other side of the globe? Can the rise of the Nazis really affect a Jewish couple in Brooklyn? Will their marriage survive the threat to their livelihoods and their health?

Sylvia is obsessed by disturbing images from Nazi Germany, reproduced in the local press. Her husband Phillip downplays his Jewishness in order to fit in. When Sylvia loses the use of her legs, they engage a Doctor from their own community. But is he competent enough to tackle the root causes of her physical – and perhaps mental – illness?

First published in 1994, when debates about the holocaust still raged in the USA, the play’s action is set in late 1938. By examining Jewish identity -through world events, local attitudes and personal feelings – its themes remain strikingly relevant today.

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