All My Sons

There's a new production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons coming into the Gate Theatre, previewing from Thur 2 April and opening on Tue 7. It's an interesting time to revisit this powerful play, with its highly relevant themes of corruption, scapegoating and personal integrity - set just after the Second World War and first produced in 1947, when the memories of that war and its far-reaching effects were still painfully fresh. In this tale of two families, Miller offers us Middle America, affluent, comfortable and confident, but with an undercurrent of distrust and unease that eventually implodes. 

Heading the cast is veteran American actor Len Cariou, winner of a Tony for his lead in the original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, opposite none other than Angela Lansbury. Robin Lefevre directs. www.gate-theatre.ie