All My Sons review

Arthur Miller’s finely nuanced All My Sons gets an equally nuanced production at Circa.

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23rd June, 2012

Review

Arthur Miller’s All My Sons has been described by David Mamet as one of the 10 best American plays of the 20th century. On the basis of Susan Wilson’s finely nuanced production at Wellington’s Circa Theatre, I can only agree. Set in the years immediately after World War II, the play has as much to say to contemporary audiences as it had to the war-weary generation to which Miller belonged. As Chris, the surviving son at the heart of the play (a quietly smouldering Richard Dey), says in an angry outburst to his father, as a soldier he knew the meaning of honour, but as heir to ...

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