Arthur Miller has died, aged 89.
Thanks for everything, Arthur. When I read your plays as a teenager, it was an amazing eye-opener: the idea that politics and the stage could combine in such a way. Everyone raves about your Death of a Salesman or The Crucible but the one that always did it for me was After the Fall. I’ve never seen it performed but it doesn’t matter: your words are so clear off the page, the emotions so powerful, and the creativity of your stage directions and the set you imagine, well I don’t know that anyone will ever do justice to the version that’s in my head. I think I started writing one-act plays as a teenager because of you. I’ve stopped that now. Maybe I should take it up again.
You’ve left an amazing legacy behind and not just your plays. I can’t imagine what the offpring of the Miller and Day-Lewis dynasties will one day produce, but I guess we’ll see soon enough.
Rest in Peace.