Review: The Price

The Price
by Arthur Miller
Directed by Adam Cook
Presented by the State Theatre Company of South Australia

Pip Miller and Michael Habib showing they can act with a concerned face.

oving away from the involved, complex pieces Adam Cook directed at the State Theatre Company in 2009 (both brilliantly directed – Mnemonic a work of art, and King Lear explosively amazing), Cook’s fist show for 2010 is a much quieter and subtler affair, with just four characters, a single room and a plot which happens in real-time.

Arthur Miller’s The Price is unmistakably set in New York City of the ‘60s.  I sometimes come out of plays thinking, “why did they even bother putting on those accents?”, but there is no way this dialogue would work without the heavy New Yarwk accent.  While not perfect, nor perfectly consistent, for the most part they were carried by the cast just fine, who were all solid in their roles and character’s development.