Mamet on Miller
Bad drama reinforces our prejudices. It informs us of what we knew when we came into the theater – the infirm have rights, homosexuals are people, too, it’s difficult to die. It appeals to our sense of self-worth, and, as such, is but old-fashioned melodrama come again in modern clothes (the villain here not black-mustachioed, but opposed to women, gays, racial harmony, etc.).
The good drama survives because it appeals not to the fashion of the moment, but to the problems both universal and eternal, as they are insoluble.
David Mamet, remembering playwright Arthur Miller
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