Walking on Broken Glass: Broken Glass (Dramatized) [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition]

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Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 1 hourand42 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
Audible.com Release Date: August 23, 2006
Language: English
ASIN: B000I0RKP0

By : Arthur Miller (Author), JoBeth Williams (Narrator), David Dukes (Narrator), Lawrence Pressman (Narrator), Linda Purl (Narrator), full cast (Narrator)
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Broken Glass (Dramatized) [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition]

Consumer Reviews

This Mobil Masterpiece Theater production of an adapatation of Arthur Miller's play is a gripping look at each the dilemma of becoming Jewish in pre-war America, as nicely as a fascinating appear at how fear can, literally, cripple a life.
The story revolves about a married Jewish couple, the Gellburgs, in Brooklyn in 1938. Mrs. Gellburg suddenly finds herself unable to move her legs, and becomes the patient of Dr. Hyman, played powerfully by Mandy Patinkin. Mr. Gellburg, in a way, also becomes the patient of Dr. Hyman as Mrs. Gellburg's diagnosis is revealed to be hysterical paralysis -- i.e., it is all in her head.
What Dr. Hyman is left to uncover about the Gellburgs, which includes both the extremely personal -- their marriage and their identity as Jews -- and the tremendously impersonal -- the starting of the torture and slaughter of Jews in Germany -- teaches great lessons about the selections we make in our lives when to give in, when to stand up and say, "Sufficient." Fear can be either a force for change, or an excuse to prevent the inevitable pains of life.
I highly recommend this serious and thought-provoking drama it offers considerably food for thought for individuals of any age or scenario.

"Broken Glass" is a thriller set in 1938 that personifies the worry that Hitler caused Jews in America. While this plot seems compelling, the story falls a small flat it other locations. This is far from Miller's very best operate.
When Sylvia suddenly looses the use of her legs, medical origins are unexpected. But as the story evolves, we locate the result in to be psychological. It is suspected that a worry of the Nazi's remedy of Jews in Germany has triggered her paralysis. However, there was anything a lot more. Sylivia has lived in a marriage with her husband Phillip that feels empty. They have not consumated their marriage in twenty years when their final youngster was conceived. Sylvia was raised in a family members that coddled her and made her really feel secure. Her marriage lacks all of the qualities of the family she was raised in. In a twist that seems out of location, Phillip suddenly dies in the last scene just as he promises to alter for Sylvia. This takes place just moments right after she walks again.
In so many ways, this function does not seem to have the fingerprints of Arthur Miller. The characters are one particular dimensional and forced just for the sake of discussing one of Miller's most comfortable plots, anti-Semitism. A number of of Miller's later works are disappointing. This fits that category.