Antony Sher in Miller's Broken Glass - Tricycle 30 Sep

Arthur Miller's Broken Glass starring Antony Sher at the Tricycle Theatre, in Kilburn, north London from 30 Sep to 27 Nov 2010.

Directed by Iqbal Khan, designed by Mike Britton , lighting by Matthew Eagland.

Phillip and Sylvia Gellburg are a Jewish married couple living in New York in the last days of November 1938. Sylvia suddenly becomes partially paralysed from the waist down after reading about the events of Kristallnacht in the newspaper. Dr. Harry Hyman is contacted by Phillip to try and help Sylvia recover. Dr. Hyman believes that Sylvia's paralysis is psychosomatic, and though he is not a psychiatrist, he begins to treat her according to his diagnosis.

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