All My Sons
All My Sons Author: Arthur Miller
First Performance: 1947, New York
Published: 1947
Genre: Trag. in 3 acts
Setting: Backyard of the Keller home on the outskirts of an American town, 1947
Cast: 5m, 4f, 1 child (m)
What starts out as a relaxed image of American life as neighbours congregate in Joe Keller's backyard on a summer's evening, soon begins to develop tensions. Ann Deever is coming from New York to visit Joe's 32-year-old son Chris. She was once engaged to Chris's brother Larry, a pilot who was lost in action in the Second World War, and Kate Keller, mother of Chris and Larry, refuses to believe that Larry is dead. Moreover, Ann is the daughter of Joe Keller's former business partner, now serving a jail sentence for equipping P-40 fighter planes with faulty engines, killing 21 pilots. Although it was...
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