Event

The Ride Down Mt Morgan

by Arthur Miller
Opens Oct. 7
Closes Oct. 23
Arthur Millers 100th birthday is being celebrated around the globe and Oldcastle Theatre will do its part to remind playgoers of the mans genius with one of his last plays, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. The New York Times wrote: Any new play by Arthur Miller is an important event in American culture. One as theatrically bold and intellectually subtle as The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is a reason to shout for joy. The play concerns Lyman Felt a poet turned insurance tycoon in his fifties. Driving down Mt. Morgan in the snow he crashes his car and is taken to an upstate hospital. Summoned to his bedside are his daughter and his two wives: Theo the older WASP-ish woman whom he married decades earlier and Leah, the young Jewish businesswoman who had been Lymans lover and insisted on becoming his wife. Now Lymans past, and his appetites, have caught up with him. The play was first presented in London and then became a success, first at the New York Shakespeare Festivals Public Theatre and then on Broadway starring Patrick Stewart. It is a towering role in a play filled with juicy parts for talented actors.