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All My Sons is a three-act play written in 1946 by Arthur Miller. It opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, closed on November 8, 1947, and ran for 328 performances. [2]
Act 1. All My Sons, a play in three acts, is set in a small town several years after World War Two, and begins with Jim Bayliss, a doctor, and Joe Keller, head of the Keller family, sitting in Keller’s backyard, reading the paper. A storm the previous night has shorn in half a tree that is revealed to memorialize Larry Keller, one of two ...
All My Sons Full Book Summary. The curtain rises on Joe Keller reading the newspaper in his backyard in a small town soon after the end of World War II. A strong wind the night before has toppled an apple tree that was planted to honor Larry Keller, Joe and Kate’s son. A neighbor, Frank Lubey, visits and says that Kate has asked him to use ...
All My Sons Lyrics. The back yard of the Keller home in the outskirts of an American town. August of our era. atmosphere. Upstage is filled with the back of the house and its open, unroofed porch ...
All My Sons is the story of Joe Keller, who owned a munitions factory with his friend and neighbor. After being charged with shipping defective aircraft engines during World War II, Joe’s partner was convicted, but Joe was exonerated. The play explores the Keller family’s complex relationships, which are burdened with shame, denial, guilt ...
Parents as Role Models. When Miller chose All My Sons as the title for his play, he indicated one of the work’s major themes: the exploration of the relationships among parents and their children. Wartime had dislocated many families by removing fathers and sons, and soldiers such as Chris and Larry formed new connections with their comrades ...
