I quick entry here. I promise I'll resume regular blogging in the near future. Just with SATs, junior year, exams, etc...it's been tough to fit extra writing in my schedule. I'm in my school play. Its "All My Sons". Pure brilliance in literature, I must say. I believe anything written by Arthur Miller is pure perfection on depicting the human condition. Its about an average neighborhood. The lead is 'Joe Keller', your average business man who sells cracked airplane parts to themilitary during World War 2. Many soldiers die because of this. The ironic thing is, he didn't go to prison. Instead, his accomplice goes to prison, and Keller is a free man. Joe has a son Larry, who is assumed dead, but Kate Keller (Mother) is in denial. She wants my character, Frank to make a horoscope for her to give her some hope that he might still be alive. On the side of this story, the daughter of Joe's business partner falls in love with Keller's other son, Chris. Eventually, the audience finds out that Larry killed himself by crashing his plane because he learned what his father did. Then Keller commits suicide himself.Tragic...right?
There is an obvious deviousness to Arthur Miller's writing. There are so many amazing themes to this play. First off, it shows us the theme of honesty. There is a quote in the play when Keller's next door neighbor, Jim Bayliss says: "...every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your whole life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again" -- symbolic of how a drastic, devastating lie or dishonest act can ruin lives and relationships. An once the "light of honesty" goes out it never lights again. And it destroys the "light" of everyone around you. Another theme of this play is patric
ide, one of the most immoral sins dating back to ancient times. "Your brother's alive, darling, because if he's dead your father killed him...God doe
s not let a man be killed by his father." This play also symbolizes the common neighborhood and a neighborhoodfilled with drama, and how things a based on fate. The three couples in this story are all ill suited for one another, and they probably would have never married unless lovers went off to war.
The point is, this play is outstanding. As Ben Brantley stated in the New York Times, "All My Sons" is "a heartfelt condemnation of capitalist greed and itsconcomitant lack of moral responsibility." Usually Miller's plays are based on a true story. The grimness of that, and the lessons it teaches the audience makes it one of my n
ew favorite plays. I shouldn't say new; It's one of the 'oldest' shows on Broadway, originally performed in 1947. It was the first play ever to win the Tony for best play!
Theater preppy also went up to providence Rhode Island to visit Brown, where my grandfather and granduncle went, and my sister checked out Providence College. The family stayed at the Hope Club, a private club on benevolent street. They have a great assistant general manager Mitchell Frania. We also ate at the best restaurant in Providence, Al Forno.
Arrivadirci for now.
