The Man Who Had All the Luck, Arthur Miller
The Man Who Had All the Luck, Arthur Miller
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The Man Who Had All the Luck

Author: Arthur Miller

Narrator: Kurtwood Smith, Full Cast

Unabridged: 2 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/06/2022


Synopsis

The Man Who Had All the Luck is a charming story of the fate of a young Midwestern man whose fortune shines on him while it passes over everyone else around him. The play wrestles with the unanswerable - the question of the justice of fate, and how it is that one man fails and another, no more or less capable, achieves some glory in life.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Emily Bergl, Kevin Chamberlin, Tim DeKay, James Gammon, Lee Garlington, Graham Hamilton, Tom McGowan, Kurtwood Smith, Russell Soder and Tegan West.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emilie on March 21, 2024

In the ashes of the American Dream, Luck demands a new system of worship. Its rules are elusive and David, a seemingly infinitely lucky man, becomes paralysed by the feeling of an imminent reckoning. Finally, the scales appear to balance when a fall presumably kills his unborn son. David, relieved,......more

Goodreads review by Sophie on January 02, 2023

3.5 stars really. Felt like the prequel to Death of a Salesman. I liked the themes a lot, even for an early play Miller is so good at dealing with existentialism, fate and, in this particular play, when we should act and when we should learn to let life pass by. Every man is born with a jellyfish- t......more

Goodreads review by Razi on July 08, 2013

Arthur Miller's earliest work and it is simply charming. A tragedy in reverse where fates conspire to destroy an honest person but fail while people around him go on living normally, meeting tragic ends! I loved this little piece and the concept of the jelly fish on water: floating not causing tides......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on October 05, 2017

This must be Arthur Miller’s least-known play; I’m pretty knowledgeable about literature and theater, and I had never heard of The Man Who Had All the Luck. It’s a rare happy ending for Miller, and, while this is no Death of a Salesman nor The Crucible, I enjoyed it pretty much. The play is a treatis......more

Goodreads review by Khadija on June 18, 2021

*spoilers* listen I know this is one of the less famous of miller's plays but I really enjoyed it, okay? I did think David's luck would wear out, and perhaps if he isn't the jellyfish riding the tides, letting circumstance wash him into sea, I thought maybe he would come across bad luck through his o......more