Arthur Miller on Play
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“The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.”
“A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance — you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.”
“By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.”