Jordan Fein Directs

The Young Vic plays host to a revival of Arthur Miller's little-performed Olivier award-winning drama, Broken Glass, in 2026. Premiered in 1994, alongside its Olivier win it received nominations for a Drama Desk and Tony Award, and remains as hauntingly affecting over 30 years later. Directed by Fiddler On The Roof's Jordan Fein, the play marries the personal with the historical for a wholly more intimate affair than some of the legendary American writer's better known works such as Death of a Salesman.

What Is The Story?

Broken Glass tells the story of Phillip and Sylvia Gellburg, a New York couple living in Brooklyn in 1938. Phillip, obsessed with work and his own desire to assimilate, has little time for his wife, but when Sylvia suddenly becomes paralysed after reading newspaper reports of Kristallnacht in Germany, Dr. Harry Hyman is called in. As he gets closer to the source of Sylvia's affliction, a relationship develops that could have devastating consequences on the family, and themes of guilt, personal tragedy and love start to unfold.