A collection of five of Arthur Miller's most famous plays including Death of A Salesman, The Crucible, View from A Bridge and All My Sons.

All My Sons (The Curve Theatre, Leicester, 17 Oct 09)
All My Sons is an antithesis to the assertion of former conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that there is no such thing as society. Her quote goes onto say that there are individuals and there are families and the patriarch in All My Sons, Joe Keller, is certainly a staunch believer in the primacy of the family, "if there's something bigger than that, I'll put a bullet in my head" he declaims.

All My Sons argues otherwise. All dogma is tainted by the absence of mercy and compassion, doubt is a much undervalued virtue. Miller's plays are often studied in Britain and certainly resound with socialist ideas. Personally, powerful though it is, this play I find a little too excessively melodramatic. It is a thick, rich drama of moral dilemmas which batters the characters, finding imperfections in them all and leaving them all damaged. ( )