The power of live performance – All My Sons Director, Douglas Rintoul’s blog

24 January 2014

I came across plays by Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and William Inge when I was a teenager. I found them innately theatrical, human, epic, didactic, full of heart and they blew me away. They made me excited about the power of theatre. I have never directed a play by Miller so to finally direct one, and All My Sons, takes me back to a time when I discovered great playwriting.

Miller’s play is perfect, it is profound, recognisable and utterly devastating. It is one of the great plays of the last century. It confronts not only events of the late 40’s but it is also a powerful indictment of our times. It is thrilling to mount a play that speaks of the now from the past – the experience is all the more powerful because it does so. One hopes that the audience will not be the same when they leave the theatre as they were when they came in. Something will have happened.  And this is what excites me about live performance.

Douglas Rintoul
Director