Now that’s a challenge a great actor - Kevin Spacey, perhaps? - should pick up. ‘If the right person comes along, I’d certainly consider it,’ she says. Which probably means a production with a major star in the male lead. Rebecca says she’d like to see a production that ‘skews the play’ away from the Monroe character. There are meditations on the Holocaust and how we all have murder inside us.’ You can’t pretend she’s not there, but at the same time it is about other things. She calls After the Fall, which Miller wrote in 1963, shortly after Monroe died, ‘a wonderful play that unfortunately in his time got completely read as an autobiographical work about her. ‘But I’m holding back on it,’ says Rebecca. It’s a fascinating story with some terrific parts for larger-than-life stage actors. There has been just one production, at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in 2004. ‘Anything that’s got the shadow of Marilyn in it - even something that has just a slight taste of her - gets overshadowed by her,’ she says.įinishing the Picture, Miller’s final play, is about the making of Monroe’s last movie, The Misfits, for which he wrote the screenplay. “As for After the Fall and Finishing the Picture - Miller’s two plays about his second wife, Marilyn Monroe - Rebecca remains wary. This play takes place solely in the mind of the main character (played then by Jason Robards. The original play was performed in 1964, 2 years after Marilyn Monroes suicide. The book dealer was in Indiana, Im in Nevada. Rebecca spoke to the New York Postrecently about the way some of her father’s plays are overshadowed by the memory of Marilyn. It was an older book, Arthur Millers AFTER THE FALL. She was born a month after Marilyn’s death, to Arthur and his third wife, Inge Morath. Rebecca Miller, daughter of Arthur, is a writer, director, and actress.
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