ABSTRACT
In both Elegy for a Lady and Some Kind of Love Story a man encounters a woman. In Elegy, they are ostensibly strangers, drawn to each other as the man buys a present for his mistress from the cool proprietress of a shop. In Love Story, a policeman, unable to extricate himself from a sexual relationship with a neurotic hooker, compromises his professionalism. On the first day we improvised around the text of Elegy. Arthur Miller sat in a corner at first and I had to invite him to come and join us. He was typically self-effacing. He wasn't going to throw his weight around. That play is the exception to his usual certainty. He had written it very quickly, dragged it up from the recesses of his sub-conscious. He was able to engage with us in a discovery of the play - that it is as much seen through the woman's eyes as the man's almost dream experience. The play was being revealed from both points of view simultaneously. I suppose that it is consistent with his sense of balance, of form.
