All My Sons
By Arthur Miller
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To honour the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth, Rapture Theatre, in association with the Beacon Arts Centre, present a short season of Arthur Miller plays: All My Sons and The Last Yankee.
All My Sons is set just after the Second World War in the backyard of Joe and Kate Keller. This gripping and passionate drama ranks as one of the classics of our time. The Kellers try to keep alive the memory of their son Larry, who disappeared in the war, by the planting of a tree in his honour. But Larry’s disappearance is not the only part of the family’s past that they can’t put behind them. Not everybody has forgotten the court case that put Joe’s partner in jail or the cracked engine heads Joe’s factory produced, which caused the deaths of twenty-one pilots.
Following a stormy night when Larry’s tree is blown down, the Kellers are threatened by a series of events that could destroy the very foundations of their lives.
With all the tension of a taut thriller, All My Sons is a powerful drama that crackles with emotion and excitement!
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Cast & Creatives

Paul Shelley
Paul trained at RADA.
Theatre includes: The House That Will Not Stand (Tricycle Theatre), Long Day's Journey Into Night (The Lyceum), The School for Scheming (Orange Tree Theatre); King Lear (Royal Theatre, Bath); Medea (No1 Tour); The Conquering Hero (Orange Tree Theatre); Earthquakes in London (No 1 Tour); Moonlight (Donmar Warehouse); A Voyage Round My Father (Salisbury Playhouse); Macbeth (Chichester, West End, New York); The Merchant of Venice (West End); Absurd Person Singular (West End); The Invention of Love (West End); A Man For All Seasons (West End); The Secret Rapture, The Crucible, Hedda Gabler, Lady in The Dark (National Theatre); Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Winter’s Tale, The Twin Rivals, Dingo, Bingo (RSC); Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Television includes: Paradise Postponed, Titmus Regained, A Tale of Two Cities, Morse, Secret Army, Midsomer Murders, Heartbeat, Revelations, Dr Who, Blake’s 7.
Film includes: Oh! What a Lovely War, Polanski’s Macbeth, Rupert Goold’s Macbeth, Caught in the Act, It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet.
Paul has directed several plays, notably: The Seagull (Orange Tree Theatre); A Man For All Seasons (York Theatre Royal).
Paul has also recorded many audio books including The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Kingsley Amis Trilogy and several Robert Goddard thrillers.

Trudie Goodwin
Trudie is best known from ITV’s long-running drama “The Bill”. What started as a six-week job playing WPC June Ackland in an hour-long play for television ended up lasting an awfully long time…
Since leaving the programme Trudie’s theatre work has included a national tour of Calendar Girls, Mrs Reynolds in a new play for Watford Palace Theatre, Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian and That Old Feeling a new musical by Richard Harris. On TV she has made guest appearances in Doctors, Heartbeat and Casualty, as well as being keen on birds and comedy, a dream job birdwatching with Bill Bailey!
Immediately before joining Rapture Theatre, Trudie was playing obnoxious Georgia Sherman in Emmerdale. She is absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to play Kate in All My Sons and to be back in Scotland again – despite the weather!

Robert Jack
Robert trained at RSAMD in Glasgow.
Theatre includes: The Glass Menagerie and And Then There Were None (Dundee Rep), Death of a Salesman and Tam O' Shanter (Perth Theatre), Pressure (Royal Lyceum/Chichester Festival Theatre), Black Watch and Home [Caithness] (National Theatre of Scotland), Stones in his Pockets (Tron Theatre), Interiors & A Brief History of Time (Vanishing Point), Slick [Fringe First winner 2008] (Vox Motus/Tron), Moby Dick, Can We All Agree to Pretend this Never Happened, The Trouble with Double, Trouble and Shame, Serov's People, The End of Hope The End of Desire, Heaven, The Seagull, What the Animals Say & Videotape (Oran Mor), White Rose (Firebrand), Walden (Magnetic North), Jason & the Argonauts (Visible Fictions), Boiling a Frog (7:84 Theatre Company), Merchant of Venice (Edinburgh Lyceum).
T.V. includes: Gary: Tank Commander 1,2 & 3 (Comedy Unit) and River City (BBC Scotland)
Radio includes: Zola: Blood Season, The Pillow Book, Lanark, Gillespie and I, Rio, Strummer and Me, Call of the Wild, Rough Magik, Trouble & Shame, The Three Threads, Meryl the Mounted, In a Land Far Away, The Watergaw, The Stranger at the Palazzo D'oro and Uncle Varick for BBC Radio.

Bryony Afferson
Theatre includes: On The Waterfront (West End and Hong Kong); Rough Music (Kings Head).
Televison includes: Whitechapel (ITV); House of Anubis (Lime Pictures); Father Brown (BBC); Silent Witness (BBC); Casualty (BBC); Walking the Dog (Sky Arts); Luther (BBC); The Shadow Line (BBC); Doctors (BBC); Law and Order (ITV); Survivors (BBC); Waking the Dead (BBC); Totally Frank (Channel 4)
Film includes: The African Game (Dania Films); Sold (Broco Media)

Michael Moreland
Trained at RSAMD.
For Rapture: Democracy and All My Sons.
Theatre includes: A Mad World, My Masters (R.S.C. & E.T.T.), Roaring Girl, The White Devil And The Witch Of Edmonton (R.S.C.), Macbeth, Twelfth Night and Cinderella (Perth Rep), Lady M (Theatre Jezebel), Sunshine On Leith (Dundee Rep), Hoors (Traverse and Tron), The Triumph of Love (Royal Exchange Manchester), Mother Goose and Pinocchio (Adam Smith Theatre), What Every Woman Knows (Royal Exchange Manchester), The Found Man (Traverse Theatre), Gagarin Way (Traverse Theatre/Royal National Theatre), Stroma (Tag Theatre Co.), Passing Places (Greenwich & Derby), Junk (Oxford Stage Co.), The Country Wife (Bridewell Theatre) and Macbeth (Chester Gateway).
Television includes: Scots Squad, Doctors, Bob Servant Independent, Pete v Life, Gary: Tank Commander, Seven Wonders of the Industrial World – Bell Rock Lighthouse, Murder Prevention, The Bill, Monarch of the Glen, Casualty, A Touch of Frost, Magic With Everything and This Life.
Film includes: Under The Skin (Film Four) Filth (Steel Mill Pictures) New Town Killers (NTK Films), Sixteen Years of Alcohol (Tartan Films), A Time to Love (Hungry Eye) and The Trench (Portman Films).

David Tarkenter
For Rapture: All My Sons, The Last Yankee, Betrayal, Hamlet and The Collection.
Theatre includes: The Knight of the Burning Pestle (The Globe Theatre Company), The 39 Steps (Vienna), Beauty and the Beast, Jack and the Beanstalk, Arsenic and Old Lace, Absent Friends, The Rivals and The Winter’s Tale. David has a long association with the Mercury Theatre having previously appeared for the company as Abanazar in Aladdin, Muley in The Grapes of Wrath and in the title role of King David, amongst countless others.
Television and film credits include: Falling, Harry, Quayside, Heartbeat, Micawber, Inspector Rebus, Byker Grove and, most recently, 55 Degrees North and Lawless.
David has also worked extensively as a voiceover artist, including recording numerous audio books, commercials and radio plays.

Lyn McAndrew
Trained: Edinburgh University, Strathclyde University
For Rapture Theatre as designer: Macbeth, Perfect Days, Assassins, Insignificance, Simpatico, Old Neighborhood, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Proof, Misery, Blue/Orange, Damages,The Collection, Broken Glass, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Hamlet, Gagarin Way and The Sash.

Steven Scott Fitzgerald
For Rapture: A Streetcar Named Desire, Democracy, All My Sons, Shang-a–Lang and Uncle Varick.
Theatre includes: Aladdin (Kings Theatre, Glasgow); Birdsong (Birdsong Productions); Sleeping Beauty (Towngate Theatre); Shadowlands (Birdsong Productions), Jack and The Beanstalk (Towngate Theatre) and Jack and The Beanstalk (Webster Theatre).
He is a graduate of Langside College in Glasgow.

Pauline Turner
Pauline Turner trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and has worked extensively in theatre, film, television and voice-over.
For Rapture: All My Sons, The Last Yankee and The Collection.
Theatre includes: Mill on the Floss (Shared Experience/international tour/West End), The Unconquered (Stellar Quines Theatre Company), Freedom Play (Southbank Centre/London Literature Festival), Top Girls (Citizens Theatre), Measure for Measure (Peter Hall Company/RSC), Sun Is Shining (BAC/Brits off Broadway Festival, NYC), Bring Me Sunshine (Manchester Royal Exchange), One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Citizens Theatre/Edinburgh Festival) and Emma (Watford Palace Theatre).
Film and TV credits include: Young Adam (Warner Bros/Hanway), Two Thousand Acres of Sky (BBC), Martin Chuzzlewit (BBC/WGBH Boston), Casualty (BBC), Goodnight Mister Tom (ITV/Carlton), Bad Boys (BBC), Taggart (STV), Cuffs (BBC/Tiger Aspect) and The Key (BBC).

Gregor Selkirk
Gregor was born in Glasgow and attends Vivace Theatre School where this year he attained a distinction in his first London College of Music exam.
In 2013, he featured in the award-winning short film The Magic Box by R Paul Wilson, the children’s TV programme The Millie Show and has since appeared in numerous TV commercials including O2 (Germany), Stena Line, Scotrail and John Adams toys.
On stage he took part in Musichoir Live (King’s Theatre, Glasgow) and more recently completed 32 performances as a Lost Boy in the 50th Anniversary pantomime of Peter Pan (King’s Theatre, Glasgow).
Gregor is delighted to be making his debut for Rapture Theatre’s production of All My Sons.

Wesley Wilson
Wesley Wilson comes from a theatrical family, with big brother Calvin and little sister Ariana both having appeared on stage and television. Like his siblings, Wesley (8) attends Vivace Theatre School in Glasgow where he studies Musical Theatre, Contemporary Dance and Ballet every week.
He has performed with Musichoir Scotland at the Kings Theatre and appeared in Vivace’s productions of Frozen and Shrek. He has taken to acting, singing and dancing like a duck to water. All My Sons is Wesley’s first major stage production.
When not treading the boards, Wesley loves football, swimming and attending Cub Scouts in his home village of Kilmacolm.

Michael Emans
In his training at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, Michael received a BA Hons in Theatre Directing, and spent his third year assisting Patrick Sandford at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton working on a range of work from classic Tom Stoppard to new writing to Panto!
After leaving drama school Michael assisted Mark Thomson at the Royal Lyceum Theatre for a season. Michael has also directed at the Oran Mor with the winner of the Orange Playwriting Award, “Magnum Opus” and the acclaimed “Burns on the Solway”.
Other previous theatre includes: Over the Mountain by Roy Williams (Creek Road Studio Theatre), Tom Jones (Lillian Bayliss Theatre), The Finishing School by Claire Luckham (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton).
For Rapture Theatre, Michael has directed: Death and the Maiden, The Dumb Waiter, Some Kind of Love Story, Shadowlands, Taking Sides, Clara, An Evening with Gary Lineker, Boys’ Life, Grace, Death of a Salesman, A Kind of Alaska, Habeas Corpus, Rat in the Skull, Oleanna, Macbeth, Perfect Days, Bold Girls, Shang-a-Lang, Assassins, Betrayal, Mr. Peters’ Connections, Insignificance, Speed the Plow, Simpatico, Boy Gets Girl, Your Turn to Clean the Stair, The Old Neighborhood, The Sailmaker, Richard III, Double Top, Boston Marriage, Twisted, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Proof, Misery, Blue/Orange, Damages, The Collection, Frozen, Broken Glass, Shining City, Betrayal 2008, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Hamlet, Gagarin Way, The Sash, The Collection, Shang-a-Lang 2013, Uncle Varick., All My Sons , The Last Yankee , Democracy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf , A Streetcar Named Desire, The Ten Pound Look, The Browning Version , A Kind of Alaska ( 2019) , The Red Lion and Clybourne Park.
Neil Murray
Was resident Director/Designer at Dundee Rep between 1980 and 1991. As Director/Designer at Northern Stage between 1991 and 2012 his work included designs for A clockwork Orange, Wings of Desire , Animal Farm and 1984.
Other work includes: Pandora’s Box, Brief Encounter, and Steptoe and Son for Kneehigh Theatre; Mrs Warren’s Profession, Vanity Fair, Copenhagen, Romeo and Juliet for Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh; Tutti Frutti for National Theatre, Scotland and A Tender Thing for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Awards include The Evening Standard, Critic’s Circle, an Obie and Outer Critic’s Circle awards for Best Design for Brief Encounter in London and Broadway; Olivier and Los Angeles Critics Circle nominations for Best design for Brief Encounter. His design for Steptoe and Son which was part of the SBTD “Make Believe” exhibition in 2015 was selected for inclusion in the UK stand at the Prague Quadreniel of Scenography in 2015 and subsequently at the V&A.
More design work: The Threepenny Opera (Nottingham and West Yorkshire Playhouse/Birmingham Rep/New Wolsey, Ipswich and Graeae co-production ) ; An Audience with Meow Meow at Berkeley Rep,California; The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe for Rose Theatre, Kingston ; The Venetian Twins for Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh.
Sergey Jakovsky
Sergey trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow and graduated with a BA in Technical & Production Arts. Sergey has worked for a variety of creative industries within the UK and Europe including Theatre, Contemporary Dance, and Installation Arts. Designing for companies such as: Tron Theatre, Catherine Wheels, Grid Iron, Derevo Theatre Company, Traverse Theatre, Visible Fictions, Communicado and Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre.
Craig Johnston
For Rapture: Democracy, The Last Yankee and All My Sons
Show Information
3 hours approx
Suitable for 14+ years
Kings Theatre Edinburgh - There will be a Captioned Performance Thursday 24 September 2015 at 7.30pm, Audio Described and Signed Saturday 26 September 2015 at 2.30pm and a Touch Tour at 1.30pm