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‘ALL MY SONS’ at The Arctic Playhouse

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(At The Arctic Playhouse)

by Henryce Zannini

The Arctic Playhouse opens its fall season with “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller, a drama based on a true story, set in 1947. The original play opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City in January 1947 and ran for 328 performances. The play examines the intricacies of a post-war American family and how far its patriarch, Joe Keller, will go to protect his family and his business, which he wants to hand down to his son, Chris. Joe’s wife Kate is determined that her oldest son Larry has survived the war and will return home to marry his neighborhood sweetheart, Ann. However, Chris and Ann are in love and plan to get married. Joe’s former business partner (who is Ann’s father) is in prison for shipping defective aircraft engine cylinders from his factory to the military during World War II, causing the deaths of 21 pilots.

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The Sins of the Father Come Out at Praxis Stage

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Review by James Wilkinson

 

All My Sons – Written by Arthur Miller. Directed by Joe Juknievich. Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Isabelle Beagen. Costume Design: Maureen Festa. Sound Design: Francis avier Norton. Movement/Intimacy/Violence Director: Kayleigh Kane. Produced by Praxis Stage at Chelsea Theatre Works through October 27, 2018.

 

It feels like Arthur Miller should be having more of a moment in theatrical circles than he currently is. Looking at his best work, you can see him wrestling with many of the ideas bouncing around in our contemporary political climate. What is America? What do we owe each other? How do the darker sides of capitalism affect the family unit? The individual? From the start of his career, Miller seemed to be taking the baton from Ibsen and using a theatrical framework to examine the relationship between the individual and society. One of Miller’s early works was even an English-adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, a play that looks at the cost a man is willing to pay for speaking truth against the wishes of the people around him. Earlier this year, I decided to acquaint myself with more of Miller’s work and it was fascinating to find specific lines and scenes in those old plays that spoke to the current moment. It’s a sign of either an especially prescient writer or a stunted society that didn’t learn its lesson when the work was staged the first time around.

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