Set in summer, 1933, in the depths of the Depression, Arthur Miller's most personal and intimate play focuses on the workers in a warehouse, a grim place in which men and women work for small wages and are grateful for the work. As Miller himself has observed, the Civil War and the Depression were the only times in American history in which the whole country was in the same boat.
This was a surprisingly good play by Miller, which starts oddly and builds to a poignant and telling conclusion. Through his humanistic and socially reverent touch, this long one act developes the comings and goings of an auto parts factory in 1933 into an dance of (mostly) men stuck in the folds of industry and The Depression.
Arthur Millers A Memory of two Mondays is a great work. I think it is a good one act play.
In Arthur Miller's one act play, A Memory of Two Mondays, we explore an automobolie parts factory during the depression era. We follow Burt as he works there and the scene is two different Mondays.
Very haunting in a depressing sort of way... Seems like it should be deleted scenes of Tom and Jim's life in the warehouse from Tennessee Williams "The Glass Menagerie", which lent it a strange out of place feel.
