Axbridge Review: you don’t have to be Jewish and a New Yorker to have a nervous breakdown over Kristallnacht – a preview of Axbridge Community Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s play Broken Glass

Axbridge Review: you don’t have to be Jewish and a New Yorker to have a nervous breakdown over Kristallnacht – a preview of Axbridge Community Theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s play Broken Glass

By Harry Mottram: Artistic director of Axbridge Community Theatre John Bailey has put together a first class cast for his production of Arthur Miller’s play Broken Glass. Part psychological detective story and part political drama the action centres on a middle-aged woman, Sylvia Gellburg, afflicted by a mysterious paralysis of the legs. The cause? Possibly the news of Hitler’s Nazi thugs on Kristallnacht smashing Jewish owned shops, burning syn…