Staff Report
The Lee University theater program continues its 2014-15 “Season of Secrets” with a production of Arthur Miller’s 1947 Tony Award winner, “All My Sons,” a drama full of family secrets. Final presentations of the show are today through Saturday, Nov. 13-15, in the Dixon Center on the Cleveland, Tenn., campus.
If You Go> What: Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.”> When: 7:30 p.m. today through Saturday, Nov. 13-15.> Where: Dixon Center, 1053 Church St., Cleveland, Tenn.> Admission: $10 adults, $7 children, seniors, students.> Phone: 423-614-8360 (box office open 3-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and one hour before curtain time).> Email: theatre@leeuniversity.edu.> Website: www.leeuniversity.edu/theatre
Set in Anytown, America, after World War II, “All My Sons” portrays the Keller family, a reasonably successful and friendly household on the precipice of upset and upheaval. Larry, the older of two sons, went missing during the war. Three years later, his younger brother has invited Larry’s one-time fiancée home to propose to her. Their love stirs up previously undisclosed accusations and family secrets.
“This lesser-known work of Miller’s is my personal favorite,” says director Dan Buck, assistant professor of theater. “He so expertly plays one card at a time, beautifully crafting an intense and compelling story that will truly capture Lee audiences.”
The set for the play, which takes place in a backyard, was designed by new theater faculty member Jared Cole and includes one ton of real sod.
“We’re excited not only by how the grass will look onstage but also by how it will fill the Dixon Center with the smell of the outdoors,” Buck says.
Several featured cast members – Michael Bachman, Nathan Tullos, Erynn Robe, Jonathan Swindle and Ashley Haddock – are senior theater majors, Buck says, “so the crowd will get to see some of our most experienced and talented actors.”
The play is recommended for children 13 and older for content relating to serious family issues.