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Arthur Miller sure can do moral fury.
The question is, can you hold out that long?
Chris loyal and idealistic and a couple degrees more intellectual than his built-himself-up-from-nothing father survived the war.
Strictly observing the unities of Greek tragedy,All My Sonsis another long days journey into night.
Millers not a wit, nor is he particularly agile with seeming small talk or elegant exposition.
This is Carpaninis fate as Ann, andman, its a slog.
And one that OBrien isnt helping her to navigate or complicate.
Shes also constantly referred to as a thing.
But shes one item hes not going to grab.
Everything, Chris, understand that?
To me, too.
The women get to do what the plot needs them to do.
Letts is especially affecting as the bluffly evasive, privately crumbling patriarch.
Hes both solid and terribly transparent, while Bening is fierce and flickering.
Has it not, rather, played right into them?
Were not being better if we keep on trying to teach the plays lesson without ourselves learning it.
All My Sonsis at the American Airlines Theatre.
