Inspired partly by Studs Terkel’s oral history Hard Times, and partly by Arthur Miller’s own recollections, The American Clock is a panoramic ‘dramatic vaudeville’ about the Great Depression of the 1930s. When the stock market crashes, a well-to-do family loses everything and is forced to move from their plush penthouse apartment to the modest home of a relative in Brooklyn…

More relevant than ever, The American Clock is a deeply affecting evocation both of a tortured time in American history and of the indomitable spirit of the people who survived in the face of unaccustomed adversity.

The American Clock premiered on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre in 1980. Its only professional UK production to date was at the National Theatre in 1986 where it was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play.