Theological and Philosophical Questions along with Humor
Under Charles Waxberg’s direction, Theatre 9-12, has produced one of Arthur Miller’s little known but extremely thought-provoking plays, The Creation of the World and other Business, which has had a rocky production history. Opening originally in New York in 1972, it closed after 20 performances but in 1973, an amateur theatre company at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe won the award for best production that year, for their production. It has also been re-worked into a musical, by Miller himself, called Up from Paradise, which opened in 1974 at the University of Michigan. Along with a lot of jokes about God and Sex, there is also a conversation about the great theological and philosophical issues of mankind: the nature of evil, the imperfections of the world, the free-will given to mankind by a supposedly all-powerful creator and of course man’s relationship to God and Satan.
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