All My Sons coming to the Watergate with Barnstorm

Watergate Theatre and Barnstorm Theatre Company have teamed up again to produce yet another fantastic Curriculum Play, ‘All My Sons’ by Arthur Miller, one of the best loved US classics of the 20th century.

The play will run from November 28 to December 1 inclusive at 8pm. There will be two performances on November 29 and 30 at 11am.
Showcasing Arthur Miller’s brilliance in exploring human nature and the psychology of family, it tells a story which reflects society and how people driven by a lust for money can stoop to any extent to acquire wealth – urgently topical in 2018!
All My Sons is among Miller’s best known plays alongside ‘A View from the Bridge’, ‘The Crucible’ and the Pulitzer prize winning ‘Death of a Salesman’.
Transport yourself back to America, 1947 into the life of Joe Keller, played by Brendan Corcoran and Kate Keller played by Mags Whitley, where, despite hard choices and even harder knocks Joe and Kate Keller are a success story.
They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.
But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their youngest boy to world War I , are about to shatter.
With a return of a figure from the long, distant past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare with serious consequences.
Meet Mags Whitley
The female lead in ‘All My Sons’ is the wonderfully talented Mags Whitley.
Mags plays the role of Kate Keller in this year's production of ‘All My Sons’.
Mags has been involved in theatre for some years starting with the Kilcumney Players in Coon up in North Kilkenny.
She then joined Barnstorm’s Adult Theatre Club for two years and subsequently the Barn Owl Players.
Her favourite role that she has portrayed is Nora from ‘The Shadow of the Glen' by John Millington Synge which won her great acclaim.
She then turned her hand to directing with ‘Confusions’ by Alan Ayckbourn in The Barn Theatre.
In 2016 she was also Assistant Director of ‘Translations’.
In December of the same year she directed ‘The Bear’ by Brian Friel for the BOPS one-act Festival.
Mags played Big Maggie in John B Keane’s play of the same name, in the first full length play to be performed by the Barn Owl Player’s in May 2017 and was outstanding.
No stranger to Curriclum Play Live productions, Mags played the part of a feisty Bessie Burgess in ‘The Plough & the Stars’ by Seán O’Casey last year, also at the Watergate Theatre.
The first co-production in 2016 was that of ‘Translations’ by Brian Friel, followed by Seán O’Casey’s ‘The Plough and the Stars’ in 2017.