ABOUT THE PLAY

 

ALL MY SONS established Arthur Miller as one of the most gifted writers of the 20th century, in an utterly compelling story of love, guilt and the corrupting power of greed.

 

Starring two of the UK’s best loved actors of stage and screen, this new production of ALL MY SONS will be the unmissable theatrical event of 2010.   David Suchet (Poirot, The Last Confession, Amadeus, Oleanna) takes on the role of Joe Keller, a dedicated husband and father, who has a dark secret that is going to tear his family apart. Zoe Wanamaker (My Family, Much Ado About Nothing, The Rose Tattoo, Awake and Sing!) plays his wife who is in denial of the cruelties and realities of war and the impact this denial will have on all their lives. 

 

Howard Davies (Olivier Award winning director of the seminal production of ALL MY SONS at the National Theatre in 2000) directs. With a superb ensemble cast, this production of All My Sons vividly demonstrates how global conflicts are ultimately very personal tragedies.

 

CAST & CREATIVE

 

Joe Keller - David Suchet

Dr Jim Bayliss - Steven Elder

Frank Lubey - Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Sue Bayliss - Claire Hackett

Lydia Lubey - Olivia Darnley

Chris Keller - Stephen Campbell Moore

Bert - Ted Allpress, Tom Howard, Gabriel Steele

Kate Keller - Zoë Wanamaker

Ann Deever - Jemima Rooper

George Deever - Daniel Lapaine

 

Understudies

Matt Addis (Chris Keller, Frank Lubey, Dr Jim Bayliss) • Olivia Darnley (Ann Deever)

Steven Elder (Joe Keller) • Claire Hackett (Kate Keller)

Christy Meyer (Sue Bayliss, Lydia Lubey) • Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (George Deever)

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Author - Arthur Miller

Director - Howard Davies

Designer - William Dudley

Lighting - Mark Henderson

Composer - Dominic Muldowney

Sound - Paul Groothuis

 

QUOTES & REVIEWS

 

Director Howard Davies won an Olivier Award for his seminal National Theatre production of this play a decade ago, and has re-assembled the creative team (designer William Dudley, lighting Mark Henderson, music Dominic Muldowney, sound Paul Groothuis) for what is destined to be the theatrical event of 2010. Some of the rave reviews received by the National theatre production in 2000 include:

 

TREMENDOUS PRODUCTION, BLAZINGLY SINCERE.

 

The overwhelming passions of this production are shockingly convincing...

All the five main characters fill the theatre with tension as if holding five sticks of lit dynamite. Intensely theatrical sequences like that sweep doubts away. The play's mix of urgency and elegy is beautifully captured by Mark Henderson's colour-drenched lighting which plays across the lawn and up to the front porch of William Dudley's lovely clapboard-house-and-garden set. David Benedict, The Independent - 2000

 

OUTSTANDING




It is an intense, immaculately conceived production packed with compelling performances. 


Miller's writing is packed with wit and wisdom and follows an Ibsenite dramatic procedure of stripping away layers to reveal previously dormant, now deepening conflicts. Not only does Howard Davies create a vivid sense of this particular family's life, he also creates a subliminal sense of the whole community, illustrating the warring themes of responsibility and self interest. William Dudley's design, meanwhile, creates an environment best described as wrap-around theatre. He lays a real grass lawn, canopied with a curtain of weeping willow. To this he adds naturalistic sounds and smells emanating from all around the theatre. Patrick Marmion


, Evening Standard – 2000

 

This is one of the most BRILLIANT and moving plays in London. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Mark Shenton, WOS 2000

Howard Davies's production is FIRST-RATE. Arthur Miller's assault on pragmatic American morality works… its calculated, post-Ibsenite structure perfectly suits the proscenium arch. Michael Billington, The Guardian, 2001

Howard Davies's BRILLIANT, MULTIPLE OLIVIER AWARD-WINNING PRODUCTION… NOT TO BE MISSED. Mark Shenton, WOS 2001

 

Davies' production reveals the brilliance of Miller's analysis of the way social illusion functioned in the post-war years. Unlike Keller's planes, this EXCELLENT production has not one faulty component. Rachel Halliburton, Evening Standard, 2001