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Monday, August 18, 2014

SRT presents "All my Sons"

August 29 - September 21 at East Sonora Theatre
By Arthur Miller
Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947 and multiple Tony Award-winner, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theatre. All My Sons introduced themes that thread through Miller's work as a whole: the relationships between fathers and sons and the conflict between business and personal ethics. In this classic American drama, Joe Keller and Steve Deever-partners in a manufacturing plant during World War II-turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. They were sent to prison but Keller was exonerated and went on to have a successful business. In a work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son and Deever's daughter, the bitterness of George Deever, and the reaction of a son to his father's guilt escalate toward a climax of electrifying intensity. "...the quality of its writing hasn't tarnished, its moral issues haven't aged, and its tragic events can still pack a wallop." Los Angeles Times (Rated PG-13) -- Content Advisory