The Price

About

The Old Globe’s 2009 revival of Arthur Miller’s The Price was presented in the theater’s Classics Up Close series in an intimate arena configuration. Directed by Richard Seer, the staging seated audiences just a few rows from the actors to sharpen the play’s moral and emotional stakes. Robin Sanford Roberts’ design transformed the James S. Copley Auditorium into a cluttered Manhattan attic, with antique furniture stacked and suspended to embody the weight of memory. The production underscored how the 1929 crash and its aftermath reverberate through a family’s choices, mirroring the economic anxieties of 2009. Rather than tilt toward melodrama, it pursued a clear-eyed balance of humor, regret, and ethical reckoning. With a four-actor ensemble, the show focused on the fraught negotiation over an estate as a proxy for value, conscience, and the cost of one’s decisions.