Arthur Miller's 'The Price' runs at Dublin's Gate Theatre

Athur Miller's 'The Price' is running at Dublin's Gate.

Miller was born in Manhattan in 1915. His father was a manufacturer of ladies' coats. When Miller was 14 the stock market crashed. His father's business did not go under but close to it.

The young boy had to leave school early but later went back to college and studied journalism.

'The Price' opened on Broadway in 1968. It is about the tangled memories of two brothers. One goes to college and becomes a doctor, the other, who is also gifted, stays home to care for his father and becomes a New York cop.

There are hints of the Vietnam war and the avant garde plays of the day in the work.

The play recalls events that happened 40 years earlier and yet the hurt and sadness is still alive and real in the minds and hearts of the two brothers.

The catalyst for the reopening of old dormant wounds is the selling of the family furniture - 16 years after their father had died.

In 1953 Miller was cited for contempt of Congress. This followed his controversial play 'The Crucible'.

He died in February 2005, aged 89.