Clonmel Theatre Guild prepare for White Memorial performance

All My Sons by Arthur Miller opens on Tuesday May 23  in the White Memorial

Theatre in Clonmel for a four-night run. 

The play is set during the Second World War. It is about a successful business man Joe

Keller. He lives peacefully with his wife Kate and his son Chris, his other son (Larry a pilot) is

lost in the war. However Joes wife Kate believes that Larry is still alive somewhere even

after so many years.

Joe has failed to fulfil his social obligations, blinded by lust for money during the war, his

plant shipped out faulty parts resulting in 21 planes crashing and the deaths of 21 pilots. His

partner Steve Deever is in prison as a result because Joe was absent the day the parts were

shipped. Steve claimed that Joe told him over the phone to ship out the parts but the court

didn’t believe him. As the story develops Deevers son now a lawyer, visits his father in

prison for the first time in years, he arrives at Joes house to stop his sister Anne who was

Larrys girl from marrying Chris, Larry’s brother. The question is, who was responsible for the

crime Steve? Can Joe’s actions be justified, how did Larry die and will the secret come

out? The play portrays society and how human beings tend to ignore the bigger picture and

have become so materialistic and selfish.