After The Fall

Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of his past relationships. One of these an illfated marriage to the charming and beautiful Maggie who went from operating a switchboard to become a selfdestructive star a singer everyone wanted a piece of. After the Fall is often seen as the most explicitly autobiographical of Arthur Millers plays and Maggie as an unflinching portrait of Millers exwife Marilyn Monroe only two years after her suicide. But in its psychological acuity and depth and its brilliant dreamlike structure it is a literary and not just biographical masterpiece.