19:30, Tue 1st – Sat 5th November 2005 at Pembroke New Cellars
Michaelmas Week 4

ALL MY SONS opens on a Sunday morning in a garden in the Mid-West in August 1947. The day is to be burning hot but now it is cool as Joe Keller reads the want ads in the paper. The silence of mundanity hangs in the air as he, his wife and neighbours go about their weekend leisure. But his son has arrived home to marry the childhood sweetheart of his brother whose jet went missing over the South China Seas in the war. What follows is a devastating and tragic deconstruction of the American way of life- family, morality and community are all held to trial in Arthur Miller’s first great play:

“What was Larry to you? A stone that fell into the water? It’s not enough for him to be sorry.”