A Memory of Two Mondays is a
one-act play by
Arthur Miller.
Based on Miller's own experiences, the play focuses on a group of desperate workers struggling to make a living in a
Brooklyn automobile parts
warehouse during the
Great Depression of the 1930s. Concentrating more on character than plot, it explores the dreams of a young man yearning for a
college education in the midst of people stumbling through life in a haze of hopelessness and despondency.
Paired with the original one-act version of
A View from the Bridge, the first
Broadway production, directed by
Martin Ritt, opened on
September 29 1955 at the
Coronet Theatre, where it ran for 149 performances. The cast included
Van Heflin,
J. Carrol Naish,
Jack Warden,
Eileen Heckart, and
Richard Davalos, who won the
Theatre World Award for his performance.