All My Sons by Arthur Miller
22nd - 25th May 2012
Directed by Cathy Stuckey
Miller's play is a portrait of a society as well as of a flawed individual.
His hero, Joe Keller, is a thriving businessman who reveres the twin American gods: family and profit. That, ultimately, is his justification for his wartime action of allowing defective parts to be fitted to air force planes, and letting his former partner take the rap. But, in the course of a single day, Joe is confronted by the consequences of his moral abdication. One son, Larry, died three years ago in the war. And when the other son, Chris, decides to marry his dead brother's fiancee, both Joe and his wife, Kate, realise that the lies by which they have lived are destined to be exposed.