Actors Theatre SF / All My Sons / Arthur Miller

All My Sons, the first great success of Arthur Miller's hugely influential career --is a compelling story of love, guilt and the corrupting power of greed.

Joe Keller is alleged to have supplied World War II fighter planes with defective engines, leading to the deaths of innocent pilots -- a crime for which his business partner took the fall. One of Keller's sons, himself a pilot, is thought to have been killed in action. But his mother can't accept his death and equally, can't accept that her dead son's fiancée has transferred her affections to her other son. The confrontations that ensue lead to the uncovering of a shameful family secret...

The action of the play is set in August of 1947, in the American Midwest. The events depicted occur between Sunday morning and a little after two o'clock the following morning.

Arthur Miller, the playwright, found the idea for the crime in a true story, which occurred during the WWII: a manufacturer knowingly shipped out defective parts for tanks. These had suffered mechanical failures leading to the deaths of many soldiers. The fault was discovered, and the manufacturer convicted.

This ATSF production is directed by Joyce Henderson, designed by James Baldock, Biz Duncan, and John Krause and the cast includes: Spencer Anderson, Larissa Archer, Linnae Caurdy, Phil Goleman, Joyce Henderson, Randy Hurst, Eric Pederson, Carole Robinson, Nicholas Russell, Vlad Sayenko and Nahry Tak.

Now Playing
til June 26th
at 855 Bush Street, San Francisco
wed-sat at 8 pm
415.345.1287
www.actorstheatresf.org

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