Inside the All My Sons rehearsal room – Assistant Director, Suzy Ward’s Blog

5 February 2014

We’re in our second week of rehearsals for All My Sons, the full company is now here, and we have just finished getting through to the end of the play for the first time.

It is absolutely thrilling to work on such an expositional drama. Miller’s language is potent and traumatic and he truly exposes human flaws in everybody.  To work on forming such comfortable and jovial relationships between these tight-knit families and neighbours within the play, makes it all the more devastating for us to watch these characters’ worlds disintegrate.

We have been working on the intentions of each of the characters and the underlying knowledge which is being discovered bit by bit as the play unfolds. Everyone arrives with their own points of view and their own agendas and it is amazing to see these dynamics drive the play forward.

The next step in rehearsals is to work on large chunks of the play, trying to push the details through, establish the emotional arcs, and see how each scene will be affected by the preceding scene.

Suzy Ward
Assistant Director