Ithaca College

On Thursday, October 8th, at 6 p.m. in the Handwerker Gallery, On the Verge will present a staged reading of Arthur Miller’s first major Broadway success, ALL MY SONS. The reading was directed by Claire Gleitman (Professor, English), and the cast will include faculty members (Greg Bostwick, Kathleen Mulligan, Jennifer Herzog, Theatre; Chris Holmes, English) and students (Dan Wisniewski, Hailee Murphy, Justin Albinder, Adam David, and Fiorella Fernandez). Danica Kelley assistant directed and Kelsey Dunne was the stage manager.

ALL MY SONS is about the conflict between self-interest and social responsibility, as dramatized by one man's choice to prioritize familial security and comfort over the larger social good. The action takes place in the back yard of Joe Keller’s suburban home, which he regards as a bastion of security in an insecure world. Yet Joe Keller is emblematic, for Arthur Miller, of Americans' collective abandonment of a collectivist sensibility, which the play suggests has devastating consequences for both the public and the private domains. ALL MY SONS is a vigorous critique of the ruthless self-interest upon which the suburban dream depends. After debuting at the Handwerker Gallery on October 8th, this production will travel to Brooklyn, NY, where it will be performed at the Arthur Miller Centennial Conference -- celebrating the 100th anniversary of Miller's birth -- at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, on October 18th, 2015.