The Real Scandal Behind All My Sons

“You wanted money, so I made money. What must I be forgiven? You wanted money, didn’t you?”

― Arthur Miller, All My Sons

Curtiss P-40 Warhawks undergo assembly in Buffalo, New York (March 1941).

Profit over lives: the true story behind All My Sons

In the early 1940s, Ohio’s Wright Aeronautical Corporation together with U.S. Army inspection officers, knowingly approved defective aircraft cylinder heads for P-40 fighter planes. The parts cracked in flight. Twenty-one young pilots never came home.

For most Americans, the story was just a headline, gone the next day. But Arthur Miller couldn’t look away. He saw in it not merely a scandal, but a profound moral crisis: what happens when contracts matter more than human lives, when silence shields power instead of protecting people?

For Miller, theatre wasn’t a place for comfort. It was a place for reckoning. Out of that conviction, All My Sons was born. It is a play that dares to ask hard questions: What is the cost of silence? Where does responsibility end? And what happens to us all when one man chooses to look the other way?

All My Sons doesn’t let us look away. It asks us, gently but firmly, to consider what responsibility means and how far it extends beyond our own homes.

Join us next month, for a story that reveals the cost of chasing the American Dream at any price.

📅 Dates to Remember 📅

October 30 – November 8

📍Location📍

The Studio at Theatre Raleigh Arts Center

3027 Barrow Dr, Raleigh, NC 27616

(Down Barrow drive past the main Theatre Raleigh space)

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🎭 This production is intimate, emotional, and intense.

⚡ Tickets are limited and selling fast

🅿️ Free Parking

⚠️🪑 No late seating

🍺 Arrive early to avoid stress and enjoy a drink in the lobby!

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