The Ride Down Mount Morgan
by Arthur Miller

Name: The Ride Down Mount Morgan
Brand: Arthur Miller
SKU: 9780822217008
Rating: 3.38 (7 reviews)

Broadway Off-Broadway West End

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Highlights

Female

Male

120 mins Present Day Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award Tony Award

Nominee: Two 2000 Tony Awards, including Best Play Nominee: Two 2000 Drama Desk Awards

Synopsis

Lyman’s desires have allowed him to believe that loving – and marrying – two women is still the kind of love that can be free of deception.

When his betrayal is discovered, he must face his true self.

While lying in the hospital, recovering from bad injuries after a car crash, Lyman’s women meet.

They are shocked and devastated, as are the children who once adored Lyman, and now despise him.

As we follow the chain of events that led up to this day, what is revealed is a selfish man, willing to take, while others around him are willing to give and to turn a blind eye to their suspicions.

In the end, Lyman is left by those who once loved him, and he must face the loneliness he now knows is his real, true self.

Press Reviews

"Mount Morgan has an elegiac dignity.” – The New York Times“The Ride Down Mount Morgan will be up there with the best of them. It is an amazingly fresh play…It is witty, beautifully written, and naughtily provocative. Eventually it should make you think more than it makes you laugh, and it makes you laugh plenty.” – New York Post“Mount Morgan has a lot of profound and humorous insights as to why relationships are essential, yet difficult to maintain… features some of Miller’s best writing in decades.“ – New York Daily News”Everyone is vulgar and hilarious, selfish and giving, ridiculous and quite grand in this generous play about the tragic and wondrous unknowability of the human creature."
— Newsday (NY)