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All My Sons

Opens: 19/05/2010 Closes: 02/10/2010 Apollo Theatre, London

Olivier Award-winner Howard Davies directs David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker in Arthur Miller's heartbreaking drama. Husband and father Joe is haunted by his corrupt past...

           

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Time Out“Suchet and Wanamaker are astonishing...” Howard Davies's revival of his superb 2000 production looks great - the trees overhanging the two-storey house shiver as if with premonition - but commits the Keller mistake of placing too many eggs in too few receptacles...
 
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Whatsonstage.com“This is a truly magnificent revival...” Davies’ revival of All My Sons ten years ago was pretty good, but he goes one better at the Apollo. Suchet brings much more weight, as well as shiftiness, to the role, and the evening winds up with a tension that's almost unbearable...
 
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Financial Times“Magnificent revival...” Davies’ precisely calibrated production is full of deftly drawn performances. At the centre is David Suchet, tremendous as Joe. It is, remarkably, both dated and timeless. It can seem didactic, contrived in places and melodramatic towards the end..
 
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Guardian“Not only is the acting tremendous but every visual detail precise... ” David Suchet's superb Joe is a man who conceals his guilt under a backyard bonhomie. Zoe Wanamaker is no less astonishing as Joe's wife. All My Sons picks up where the previous and equally impressive occupant of this theatre, Jerusalem, left off...
 
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The Independent“Emotionally searching, expertly acted revival…” David Suchet effortlessly commands the stage. Miller's Ibsenite plot occasionally creaks and is marred by certain implausibilities; but while it lasts, you are swept up by the production's splendid self-conviction...
 
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this is london“You won't find better performances in the West End right now...” A meaty, satisfying production. A heavyweight drama — moralistic, well-made and perhaps a little too obvious in its tragic design. Not exactly summer blockbuster material, but it is as potent a production of Miller's work as one could hope to see..
 
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The Times“Riveted by the acting...” David Suchet is magnificent, less convincing is Zoë Wanamaker, as Kate. Her fragility seems too obvious, and her sudden grief too actorly. Howard Davies’s assured production does full justice to one of Miller’s most craftsmanlike plays...
 
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The Telegraph“Profoundly moving...” Last night I even spotted a hardened fellow critic weeping. This is a play of extraordinary power and emotional depth. A stunning production of a modern classic and one that those who see it will never forget...
 
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The Stage“Dynamic staging by Howard Davies...” An intensely watchable domestic Greek tragedy. David Suchet, tough and companionable, is inspired casting as Joe Keller. Davies’ gripping, strongly cast revival should keep the Apollo’s box office busy throughout the summer months...
 
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New Statesman“Not yet reviewed”
 
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