REVIEW: All My Sons, Old Vic Theatre London ✭✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Arthur Miller’s All My Sons starring Sally Field and Bill Pullman now playing at London’s Old Vic Theatre.
Mark Ludmon reviews Arthur Miller’s All My Sons starring Sally Field and Bill Pullman now playing at London’s Old Vic Theatre.
To consider The Broken Heart as a soap opera is to fundamentally misconceive it. The author seemed clear enough that it was a tragedy and the text certainly sounds like a tragedy. The cast are not the problem. Each and every one attacks the play with verve and in the style chosen by director Chridtine Steinbeis. That the attack is misconceived is not down to them.
Breen squeezes every bit of comedic possibility from the play. The repertory company, so good in the dramatic and enthralling Oppenheimer, prove to be equally skilled in the bawdy comedy department. There are sly asides, vicious insults, dirty double entendres, rowdy gags, silly accent routines, fart jokes, catch-phrase jollity, physical comedy, costume comedy, sight gags, clowning – you name it, it can be found in Breen’s lucid, fast-moving and hugely enjoyable production.
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