Miller provides theatre festival highlight

PLAYWRIGHT Arthur Miller’s participation is one of the highlights of the 2003 Dublin Theatre Festival, running from September 29 to October 11.

Married to screen goddess Marilyn Monroe and celebrated for his groundbreaking work, The Crucible, Miller, for whom theatre was an agent of change, will explore politics and theatre.

How far theatre can or should go in involving itself in the politics of the day is the subject of a two-day conference to be held in Liberty Hall. Among the works to be read are Miller’s Resurrection Blues, a scalding parody on political manipulation.