It’s clear why Triad Stage chose The Price to begin its year: The political turmoil of the election has once again led to intense questioning of an enduring social system that the play exposes as fanged and ruthless - shades of 1968, the year of Arthur Miller’s composition and the peak of political unrest that resembles today’s fervor for social change. The Price runs at the Triad Stage through Feb. Their disparate observations, jealousies and perspectives - as well as the ones Solomon and Victor’s wife Esther introduce - form the play’s conflict and evoke the greater social and economic questions so familiar to those watching. But despite the suggested change in Walter’s persona, Victor envies his brother’s success and blames him for abandoning the care of their ailing father before he passed away. Walter has publicly become a successful and wealthy man, the toils of which led to a breakdown and divorce three years earlier. The time apart has led to very different lives.
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