DOUGLAS Rintoul is back at Bagnor’s Watermill Theatre currently, directing his first Arthur Miller play, All My Sons.

Based on a true incident, All My Sons – one of the playwright’s early successes – examines the disintegration of a family torn apart by guilt.

Patriarch and self-made man Joe Keller made his money from manufacturing fighter plane engines during the Second World War. His wife, Kate, refuses to believe their son Larry, a fighter pilot, who has been missing for years, is dead.
When Chris, his brother, decides to marry Larry’s former girlfriend, Ann, shameful secrets shake the family to its heart.

See it until Saturday, March 22.

Douglas said: “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 and one of the greatest plays of the last century.

“It confronts not only events of the late 1940s 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.”

Tickets priced £14.50 – £26 are available from the box office on 01635 46044 or online at watermill.org.uk.